Change Is Gonna Come

I was born by a river in this little old tent Oh just like this river I've been running ever since It's been a long, long time coming But I know, but I know a change is gotta come Oh yes it is On my It's been too hard living, oh my And I'm afraid to die I don't know what's up there Beyond the clouds It's been a long long time coming But I know, but I know a change is gotta come Oh yes it is On my There was a time I would go to my brother I asked my brother, Will you help me please He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother, oh I said Mother I said Mother I'm down on my knees It's been a time that I thought Lord this couldn't last for very long But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh, yes it is Just like I said, I went to my little bitty brother, my littele brother I asked my brother Brother help me please He turned me down and then I go to my little mother, my dear mother I said Mother I said Mother I'm down on my knees But there was a time that I thought Lord this couldn't last for very long But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on It's been a long, long time coming But I know, but I know a change is gotta come Oh yes it will So tired of standing by myself You know that I know that a change is gotta come