A Change Is Gonna Come - Otis Redding

I was born by the river in a 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 a change is gonna come

Oh yes it is

On my!

It’s been too hard living

And I’m afraid to die

Cause I don’t know what’s up there

Beyond the clouds

It’s been a long long time coming

But I know a change is gonna come

Oh yes it is

Oh my

There’s 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

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

I asked my brother «Brother help me please?»

He turned me down and then I go to my little 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 a change is gonna come

Oh yes it will