A Change Is Going To Come

I was born by the river, in a little tent

But, oh, just like the river's been a running

I've been running ever since

It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change is goin' 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 goin' 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 want to thank you Jesus, thank you for

For carrying me home

It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change is goin' 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 coming

But I know, some kind of change

I said a change, I said a change

A change has got to get underway pretty soon girl

A long, long time ago, I wondered if that change was gon' come girl

But you know it seems like I tried so hard, to get back where I started from

I 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' a kid all over again

Because you know when you see a little boy or little girl runnin' down the street

Runnin' to meet the popsicle truck and all 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 going through

Back home again baby

Then comes the ages when you start drinkin' wine

Takin' care of business at the drive-in-movies

And one day your partner gives you one of those funny lookin' cigarettes

And says its time to for you, for you to get mellow one more time

And after that first hit, the whole world brightens up just a little bit

But you know I come from back, way back in Indiana where like we've got outhouses

And brothers 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!