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Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changing (1964)

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  1. Amarok
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    This song has been on my mind lately.

    This song has been on my mind lately.

    Come gather round people
    Wherever you roam
    And admit that the waters
    Around you have grown
    And accept it that soon
    You'll be drenched to the bone
    If your time to you is worth saving
    Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone
    For the times they are a-changing

    Come writers and critics
    Who prophesize with your pen
    And keep your eyes wide
    The chance won't come again
    And don't speak too soon
    For the wheel's still in spin
    And there's no telling who that it's naming
    For the loser now will be later to win
    Cause the times they are a-changing

    Come senators, congressmen
    Please heed the call
    Don't stand in the doorway
    Don't block up the hall
    For he that gets hurt
    Will be he who has stalled
    For the battle outside raging
    Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
    For the times they are a-changing

    Come mothers and fathers
    Throughout the land
    And don't criticize
    What you can't understand
    Your sons and your daughters
    Are beyond your command
    Your old road is rapidly aging
    Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
    Cause the times they are a-changing

    The line it is drawn
    And the curse it is cast
    The slowest now
    Will later be fast
    As the present now
    Will later be past
    The order is rapidly fading
    And the first one now will later be last
    For the times they are a-changing

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