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'll sink like a stone   For the times they are a changin'      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 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 just stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall   For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled   There's a battle outside and it is ragin'   It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls   For the times they are a changin'      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 agin'   Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand   For the times they are a changin'      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 past   The order is rapidly fadin'   And the first one now will later be last   For the times they are a changin'