Questo brano è stato interpretato negli anni scorsi da tantissimi artisti, tra cui Phil Collins, Simon & Garfunkel ed i Beach Boys, fa inoltre da colonna sonora nei titoli di testa del film Watchmen, di Zack Snyder. Ecco gli accordi per chitarra:
Sol Mim Do Sol
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
Sol Lam Do Re
And admit that the waters around you have grown
Sol Mim Do Sol
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
Sol Lam Re
If your time to you is worth savin'
Re Re7 Sol7 Re
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
Sol Do Re Sol
For the times, they are a chang - in'
(Gli accordi si ripetono per il resto della canzone)
Come writers and critics who prophecies 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 mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticize what you don'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 a hand
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's ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
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'
