A Change Is Gonna Come

<br>[Intro]<br>You look good out there, baby<br><br>I was born by the river in a little tent<br>Oh, just like the river, I been running ever since<br>It`s been a long, a long time coming<br>But I know a change is gonna come<br>Oh, yes it will, look it here<br><br>It`s been too hard living and I`m afraid to die<br>Look it here<br>Cuz I don`t know what`s up there beyond the sky<br>It`s been a long<br>I wish I could come out there where you are baby<br>A long time coming but I know<br>Look it here<br>A change is gonna come, oh yes it will<br>Look it here<br><br>Let me say one more thing<br>I go to the movie and I go downtown<br>But I don`t like it here<br>Somebody keep telling me oh boy, don`t hang around<br>It`s been a long, a long<br>If anybody know what I`m talking about<br>Lemme see you wave your hands<br>I know a chance gonna come, oh yes it will<br>But I gotta take, say this here<br><br>Then I go to my brother, yes sir<br>And I tell `em, I say brother help me please<br>But he winds up knockin` me<br>He knocks me back down, back down on my <br>Oh there`s been times that I fall<br>Somebody say yeah<br>Life could pass me on, no no<br>I know I`m able, I`m able, I`m able<br>I`m able to carry on<br>It`s been a long, good God almighty<br>A long time coming but I know, yeah <br>A change is gonna come, oh yes it will<br>Look it here, one more time<br><br>Then I go to my brother<br>Somebody take your hands back and forth like this<br>Everybody, everybody<br>You sittin` in the first balcony too<br>All over the auditorium tonight<br>But he winds up knocking me down, my<br>Back down on, back down on my knee oh<br><br>I`ve been down but I thought I could last<br>Oh, I know I`m able, I`m able, I`m able<br>I know, I know, I know a change gonna come<br>And oh yes it will<br>Somebody say yeah<br>You all back here, lemme hear ya say yeah<br>Somebody say oh yeah<br>Somebody say oh yeah<br>Somebody say yeah<br>Whoa, right on