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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'
And 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
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
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'
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'
And 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
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
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'
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You can say that Texas and Minnesota are both part of United States. But I refuse to believe that George W Bush and Bob Dylan are from the same country. CNN should play "With God On Our Side" every twenty minutes. We'll have to wait four more years for the President of the US stop being an embarassment. A shame.
Who's an embarrassment now?
The embarrassment now is John Boehner and the stone wall congress!!<br /> Dylan always gives us hope!
@krism48 Ha ha, I’ve just read your comment, years old by now, but I just saw A news item about a week ago that mentioned Boehner and his fuckin crying jags whenever someone would show him a ???????? or sing the StSpBa, the commentator - was it John Oliver? - said how PHONY the whole thing was, Boeher was always, AT ALL TIMES, either in the process of pouring alcohol into his body or, recovering from a loooong night (remember the old saying, “I spent a month in there one night”?!?), so of course he was always fuckin SAD, alcohol is a goddamned depressant, of course that tanned asshole was always bawling his eyes out…<br /> <br /> Fuckin worthless sack of shit - this devolved quickly in my brain ???? , huh? Lol - while it’s ok that he spoke up about The Drumpf and what a scum he (and his entire empty clan), but I wanna hear this prick crying and explaining how SORRY he is that HE allowed the Repugs to devolve even further back towards our earlier, Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon days…but that’s hey happens, I guess, when you’re entire party platform is a reaction tonthw COMPETENT side/party. <br /> <br /> Sorry not sorry