Peter Yarrow – The Times They Are A Changing chords

Based on Live Concert version recorded on October 12, 2012 at the Performing Arts Center 
in New Jersey

Intro: G(for two measures) Em D

G           Em            C          GCome gather around people where ever you roam

G              Am         C          Dand admit that the waters around you have grown

G          Em            C             Gand except that too soon you'll be the drenched to the bone

G             Am        Dand your time to you is worth saving

D              D7             G           Dand you better start swimming or you will sink like a stone

G             C        D     Gfor the times they are a changing


G            Em          C            Gcome writers and critics who prophesy with your pen

G             Am        C               Dand keep your eyes wide with the chance won't come again

G         Em             C              Gand don't speak too soon for the wheels still in spin

G          Am          Dthere's no telling who that is naming

D       D7        G       Dfor the loser now will be later to win

G             C        D     Gfor the times they are a changing


G             Em          C           GCome senators congressman please head the hall

G           Am             C          Ddon't stand in the doorway don't lock up the hall

G      Em        C          Gfor he gets hurt for he who has stalled

G                Am          DThere's a battle outside and it's raging

D            D7                 G          Dit will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

G             C        D     Gfor the times they are a changing


G            Em          C          GCome mothers and fathers throughout the land

G         Am        C        Dand don't criticize what you can't understand

G             Em             C      Gyour sons and your daughters beyond your command

G            Am         Dthe old road is rapidly aging

D              D7        G         Dplease get out a new one and can't lend your hand

G             C        D     Gfor the times they are a changing


G        Em       C         GThe line is drawn the curse is cast

G        Am      C          Dthe slow one now will later be fast

G      Em          C          Gas the present now will later be past

G             Am         Dand the order is rapidly fading

D            D7      G          Das the first one now will later be last

G             C        D     Gfor the times they are a changing