Standard (EADGBE)

 Come gather 'round people where ever 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 prophecies 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 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's 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 your 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'!