A Change Is Gonna Come

I was born by a river in this little old tent

Oh just like this river I've been running ever since

It's been a long, long time coming

But I know, but I know a change is gotta come

Oh yes it is

On my!

It's been too hard living, oh my

And I'm afraid to die

I don't know what's up there

Beyond the clouds

It's been a long long time coming

But I know, but I know a change is gotta come

Oh yes it is

On my!

There was a time I would go to my brother

I asked my brother, "Will you help me please?"

He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother, oh

I said "Mother!"

I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"

It's been a time that I thought

Lord this couldn't last for very long

But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on

It's been a long, long time coming

But I know a change is gonna come

Oh, yes it is

Just like I said, I went to my little bitty brother, my littele brother

I asked my brother "Brother help me please?"

He turned me down and then I go to my little mother, my dear mother

I said "Mother!"

I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"

But there was a time that I thought

Lord this couldn't last for very long

But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on

It's been a long, long time coming

But I know, but I know a change is gotta come

Oh yes it will

So tired of standing by myself

You know that I know that a change is gotta come