The Times They’re Still A-Changin’

Come gather ’round, people, cease you to roam

And admit that your “leaders” cause you to groan

And accept it that soon you’ll be fleeced to the bone

If your children to you are worth saving

Then you better start seein’, or you’ll be dumb as a stone

For the times, they’re still a-changin’

Come writers and critics who think so much of your pen

And stop your poison, we know of your sin

And speak to us no more for we’ve heard all your spin

And it’s we who’re tellin’ that it’s you we’re blamin’

For the deplorable now will be later to win

For the times, they’re still a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen, who are corrupt, you all

Stand up for Americans, stop making us crawl

For we that you hurt will one day stand tall

The battle you’re always wagin’

Will soon end and it’s you who shall fall

For the times, they’re still a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land

It’s time to criticize what they say you can’t understand

Bring your sons and your daughters beyond their command

The old road is quietly callin’

Get off the new one before you may no longer stand

For the times, they’re still a-changin’

The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is manifest

The slow one now will soon be held fast

Or the present now aside will be cast

The New Order is rapidly failin’

And the first to see it will one day be blessed

For the times, they’re still a-changin’

NOT sung by Robert Zimmerman

(Bob was born to a prominent Jewish family in Duluth, Minnesota;

that is why he “made it” so fast!)

(Bob’s song is now updated to the A’changin Crazy 20s)