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A Change Is Gonna Come Lyrics

[Intro]

You look good out there, baby



I was born by the river
in a little tent

Oh, just like the river, I been running ever since

It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change is gonna
come

Oh, yes it will, look it here



It's been too hard living
and I'm afraid to die

Look it here

Cuz I don't know what's up there
beyond the sky

It's been a long

I wish I could come out there where
you are baby

A long time coming but I know

Look it here

A
change is gonna come, oh yes it will

Look it here



Let me say
one more thing

I go to the movie and I go downtown

But I don't like
it here

Somebody keep telling me oh boy, don't hang around

It's
been a long, a long

If anybody know what I'm talking about

Lemme
see you wave your hands

I know a chance gonna come, oh yes it will

But I gotta take, say this here



Then I go to my brother, yes
sir

And I tell 'em, I say brother help me please

But he winds up
knockin' me

He knocks me back down, back down on my 

Oh there's
been times that I fall

Somebody say yeah

Life could pass me on, no
no

I know I'm able, I'm able, I'm able

I'm able to carry on

It's been a long, good God almighty

A long time coming but I know,
yeah 

A change is gonna come, oh yes it will

Look it here, one more
time



Then I go to my brother

Somebody take your hands back
and forth like this

Everybody, everybody

You sittin' in the first
balcony too

All over the auditorium tonight

But he winds up
knocking me down, my

Back down on, back down on my knee oh



I've been down but I thought I could last

Oh, I know I'm able, I'm
able, I'm ab