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 savin' then you better start swimmin'   Or you will sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin'      Come writers and critics who prophecise with your pen   And keep your eyes wide,the chance won't come again   And don't speak too soon 'cause the wheel's still in spin   And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'   For the loser now, will be later to win, for the times they are a-changin'      Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call   Don't you just stand in the doorways, don't you block out the hall   For he that gets hurt, will be he who has stalled   There's a battle outside and it's ragin'   It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls   For the times they are a-changin', yes, they are a-changin'      Come mothers and fathers throughout the land   And don't you dare criticize, what you can not understand   Your sons and your daughters, they're beyond your command   Your old road is rapidly agin'   Please get out of the new one if you can not lend your hand   For the times they are a-changin'      A line it is drawn, the curse it is cast   And you know, the slow one now will later be fast   As the present now will later be past   The order is rapidly fadin' and the first one now will later be last   For the times they are a-changin', yes, they are a-changin'      Come gather 'round, gather 'round   Come gather 'round people wherever you roam   And accept it that soon, you'll be drenched to the bone