The Times They Are a-Changin' - Tony Skeggs

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

You'd 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 pens

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

For the times

They are a changing

Come senators congressmen

Please head 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

The battle outside ragging will

Soon shake your windows

And rattle your WALLS

For the times they are a changing

Come mothers and fathers

THROUGH OUT THE land

And don't criticize what

You can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old role is rapidly aging

Please get out of the new

One if you can't lend YOUR hand

For the times they are a changing

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now will later be fast

AS the present now will

LATER be the past

The order is rapidly fading

AND The first one now

Will later be last

For the times

They are a changing