A Change Is Gonna Come – Otis Redding
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A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
As recorded by Otis Redding
(From the 1965 Album OTIS BLUE/OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL)
For easier chord fingerings you may put a capo at 1st fret
and transpose -1 step.
Intro
N.C.
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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I was born by a river in this little old tent
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Oh just like this river I've been running ever since
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It's been a long long, long time coming
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But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
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Oh yes it is
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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It's been too hard living, oh my
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And I'm afraid to die
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I don't know what's up there
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Beyond the clouds
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It's been a long long, long time coming
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But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
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Oh yes it is
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There was a time I would go to my brother
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I asked my brother, "Will you help me please?"
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He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother, oh
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I said "Mother!"
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I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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It's been a time that I thought
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Lord this couldn't last for very long
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But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on
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It's been a long long, long time coming
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But I know a change is gonna come
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Oh, yes it is
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Just like I said, I went to my little bitty brother, my littlee brother
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I asked my brother "Brother help me please?"
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He turned me down and then I go to my little mother, my dear mother
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I said "Mother!"
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I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
ch]Ab[/ch
But there was a time that I thought
ch]Ab[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch
Lord this couldn't last for very long
ch]Fm[/ch
But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on
ch]Ab[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch
It's been a long long, long time coming
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But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
ch]Fm[/ch] [ch]Db[/ch] [ch]Cm[/ch
Ooh it's been so long, it's been so long, a little too long
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But a change has gotta come
Outro
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I'm so tired, so tired of standing by myself
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And standing by my self
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And standing up alone
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But a change has gotta come
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You know and I know
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You know that I know
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I know that you know, honey
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That a change is gonne come, oh my