For the Times They Are A’Changing:
August 29, 2010: As long as we are in the protesting spirit, a friend, (thank you NealC), reminded me that the Tea Party/Beck gang needed someone to write a protest song. ..... Oh wait! Someone DID!!
How wonderful it would be to introduce this old anthem of our baby boomer days so we could hear it again.
I admit I have never understood the last stanza...I just figured I was too...blond. And, okay, I did skip a couple poetry classes.
Maybe, Bob was high when he wrote it.
The words and music took on a powerful meaning in the 60's and 70's and they still could today.
Come on everyone, sing along with me. I know you know the chorus!
Lyrics by Bob Dylan
Come gather round people
Wherever you roam
and
Admit that the waters
Around you have grown
....
And 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'
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again .....
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
..... For the times they are a'changin'
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
.... There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your wall
..... 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 your daughters
Are beyond your command
.... Your old road
Is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
.... 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
As the present now
Will later be past
.... The order is
rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
.....
For the times they are a'changin'