A Change Is Gonna Come

	  		
verse 1 
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I was born by a river in this little old tent 
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Oh just like this river  I've been running ever since 
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It's been a long long, long time coming 
Db    C                  Fm 
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come 
Ab 
Oh yes it is 

verse 2 
Ab 
It's been too hard living, oh my 
Ab                   Bm 
And I'm afraid to die 
Bm                           Fm 
I don't know what's up there 
Fm 
Beyond the clouds 
Ab                     Bm 
It's been a long long, long time coming 
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But I know, but I know a change is gotta come 
Ab 
Oh yes it is 

Bridge 
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There was a time I would go to my brother 
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I asked my brother, "Will you help me please?" 
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He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother, oh 
B7 
I said "Mother!" 
B7                          Eb 
I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees" 

verse 3 
Ab 
It's been a time that I thought 
Ab                                    Bm 
Lord this couldn't last for very long 
Bm                                     Fm 
But somehow I thought I was still able   to try to carry on 
Ab                     Bm 
It's been a long long, long time coming 
Bm  Db  C  Fm 
But I know a change is gonna come 
Ab 
Oh, yes it is 

Bridge 
Bm                                    Ab                               Bm 
Just like I said, I went to my little bitty brother, my littlee brother 
Bm                                  Fm       Bm 
I asked my brother "Brother help me please?" 
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He turned me down and then I go to my little mother, my dear mother 
B7 
I said "Mother!" 
                         Eb 
I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees" 

verse 4 
Ab 
But there was a time that I thought 
Ab                               Bm 
Lord this couldn't last for very long 
                                   Fm 
But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on 
Ab                     Bm 
It's been a long long, long time coming 
Db           Cm          Fm 
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come 
Fm               Db                         Cm 
Ooh it's been so long, it's been so long, a little too long 
Cm           Fm 
But a change has gotta come 

Outro 
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I'm so tired, so tired of standing by myself 
Cm       C 
And standing by my self 
Fm 
And standing up alone 
Fm 
But a change has gotta come 
Fm 
You know and i know 
Fm            Db 
You know that I know 
Db          Cm 
I know that you know, honey 
Cm            Fm                     Ab   Db 
That a change is gonne come, oh my