The Times They Are A-Changin Chords & Tabs

by Bob Dylan

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
whole:
BPM: 172
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 1, 101]
D/C  x30232
D/B  x20032

[Verse 1]
     G             Em         C        G   
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
      G            Am      C              D    
And admit that the waters around you have grown
      G            Em             C               G   
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
        G       Am           D     
If your time to you is worth savin'
         D            D/C                D/B          D/A  
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
        G           C     D   G   
For the times, they are a-changin'

[Harmonica]
G  Em  C  G

[Verse 2]
     G           Em                C              G  
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
    G              Am              C           D   
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
    G               Em           C                G   
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
            G          Am            D     
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
         D       D/C      D/B      D/A
For the loser now will be later to win
        G          C     D   G   
For the times they are a-changin'

[Harmonica]
G  Em  C  G
D  C   G  D

[Verse 3]
     G         Em          C               G   
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
      G            Am             C            D   
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
    G            Em           C          G      
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
          G         Am            D     
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
         D             D/C        D/B          D/A 
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
        G          C     D   G   
For the times they are a-changin'

[Harmonica]
G  D  C  D  G

[Verse 4]
     G           Em      C              G   
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
    G          Am            C          D    
And don't criticize what you can't understand
     G             Em              C            G   
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
     G           Am      D    
Your old road is rapidly agin'
         D             D/C           D/B             D/A 
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
        G          C     D   G   
For the times they are a-changin'

[Harmonica]
G  Em  C  G
D  C   G  D
G  C   D  G

[Verse 5]
    G          Em        C           G   
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
    G        Am       C        D   
The slow one now will later be fast
       G       Em       C        G   
As the present now will later be past
    G        Am      D     
The order is rapidly fadin'
         D        D/C      D/B      D/A 
And the first one now will later be last
        G          C     D   G   
For the times they are a-changin'

[Harmonica]
G  Em  C  G
(Fade out)