The Times They Are A-Changin Chords – Bob Dylan

Verse 1

     G             Em     C            G
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
    G              Am     C               D
And admit that the waters around you have grown
    G              Em             C               G
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
        G       Am           D
If your time to you is worth savin'
         D            D/C                D/B         D/A
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
        G           C   D         G
For the times, they are a-changin'

Harmonica

G Em C G

Verse 2

     G           Em          C                    G
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
    G              Am              C          D
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
    G               Em           C                G
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
            G          Am            D
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
        D     D/C         D/B      D/A
For the loser now will be later to win
        G          C   D         G
For the times they are a-changin'

Harmonica

G Em C G
D C G D

Verse 3

     G         Em          C               G
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
      G            Am             C            D
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
    G            Em           C          G
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
          G      Am               D
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
      D               D/C         D/B         D/A
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
        G          C   D         G
For the times they are a-changin'

Harmonica

G D C D G

Verse 4

     G           Em      C              G
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
    G     Am                 C     D
And don't criticize what you can't understand
     G             Em            C           G
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
     G           Am      D
Your old road is rapidly agin'
       D              D/C            D/B             D/A
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
        G          C   D         G
For the times they are a-changin'

Harmonica

G Em C G
D C G D
G C D G

Verse 5

    G          Em        C           G
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
    G        Am       C        D
The slow one now will later be fast
       G       Em       C        G
As the present now will later be past
    G        Am      D
The order is rapidly fadin'
        D         D/C      D/B      D/A
And the first one now will later be last
        G          C   D         G
For the times they are a-changin'

Harmonica

G Em C G

(Fade out)