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The Times They Are A-changin Tab

by Mason Jennings



Drop D Tuning
Capo 1st Fret

These are the chords played relative to the capo.

                       
E|--2----2----3----0----0----0----0--|
B|--3----3----3----0----2----2----2--|
G|--2----4----4----0----2----2----2--|
D|--0----4----5----3----2----2----2--|
A|--0----2----5----3----0----X----X--|
D|--0----X----5----3----x----5----4--|


Intro:
[Strum D for 6 bars]

                  
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'.


                                    
[---------Harmonica---------]


                
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'.


                        
[Harmonica Interlude]

                               
[Harmonica Interlude]


              
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 is ragin'.

                     
It'll soon shake your windows

            
And rattle your walls

                           
For the times they are a-changin'.


                                    
[---------Harmonica---------]


                
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'.


                        
[---------Harmonica---------]

                   
[---------Harmonica---------]

                                    
[---------Harmonica---------]



              
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'.


                        
[---------Harmonica---------]

                   
[---------Harmonica---------]

                  
[---------Harmonica---------]