Come gather 'round people wherever you roam Admit that the waters around you have grown 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' The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast The slow one now will later be fast The present now will later be past The order is rapidly fadin' And the first was now will later be last For the times they are a-changin' Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don't criticize what you can't understand Your sons and daughters are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agein' Get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'