A Change Is Going to Come

I was born by the river, in a little tent But, oh, just like the river's been on runnin', I've been runnin' ever since It's been a long, a long time comin' But I know a change is gonna come Oh, yes it will It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die 'Cause my mama never told me what goes on beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh, yes it will Say! Like I said, I call to my brother Say! Brother, brother, would you help me, please? Oh, they whine, so, that crazy town What goes on, was spendin' me There was a time, thought I'd fall I couldn't learn, alone But I wanna thank You, Jesus Thank You for, for carrying me home It's been a long, a long time comin' But I know a change is gonna come, oh, yes it will I want y'all to help me now Hey! Like I said, I call to my brother Brother! Brother, brother, would you help me, please? Oh, they whine, so, that crazy town What goes on, was spendin' me There was a time, thought I'd fall I couldn't learn, alone But I know that you're out there, baby, and one day I'll be back home It's been a long, a long time comin' But I know, some kind of change I said a change, I said a change A change has got to get on the way pretty soon, girl A long, long time ago, I wondered if that change was gonna come, girl But you know, it seems like I tried so hard to get back where I started from It took about, it took about 20 years of very serious smoking A few ups and downs A few trips Little space odyssey once in a while To get back, to get back, to get back, to get back, to get back to bein', to bein' a kid all over again But you know when you see a little boy or a little girl runnin' down the street Runnin' to meet the popsicle truck and all of the sudden and you get to turn around and say, "Wow I'll be glad when this cat gets here, all these changes I'm goin' through" Back home again, baby Then comes the ages when you start drinkin' wine Takin' care of business at the drive-in-movies, and then one day your partner gives you one of those funny lookin' cigarettes and says its time for you, for you to get mellow one mo' time And after that first hit, the whole world sorta brightens up just a little bit But you know I come from back, way back in Indiana where like we've still got outhouses, and brother's wearin' pointed toe shoes and carryin' 45s, but you know there's, there's three kind of people in this world, that's why I know a change has gotta come I say there's white people, there's black people and then there's my people Oh, got to get on home now Talkin' about a change Has got to get underway, baby I feel it comin', I feel it comin' I feel that it's coming pretty soon Say!

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