A Change Is Gonna Come

(s. cooke)

Producers: martyn ware and greg walsh

Producer (live version): john hudson

Album: live in europe (88), the collected recordings (94)



I was born by the river in a little tent

Oh, and like that river i've been running ever since

It's been a long, long time coming

But i know a change is gonna come

Oh yes it is



It's been too hard living and i'm affraid to die

I don't know what's up there beyond the sky

It's been a long, long time coming

But i know a change is gonna come

Oh yes it is



I go to the movies and i go around in town

Everybody there keeps telling me "don't hang around"

It's been a long, a long time coming

But i know a change is gonna come

Oh yes it is



Then i go to my brother

And i say "brother, please"

But he just winds up, knocking me

Back down on my knees



Sometimes i thought i wouldn't last for long

But now i think i'm able to carry on

It's been a long, long time coming

But i know a change is gonna come

Oh yes it is




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