a change is gonna come

Maverick Sabre

I was born by the river
In a little tent
Oh And just like the river
I been a running ever since
It's been a long
A long time coming but
I know a change gon' come
Oh Yes it will

It's been too hard living
but I'm afraid to die
Cause I don't know what's
up there beyond the sky
It's been a long
A long time coming but
I know a change gon' come
Oh, yes it will

And I go to the movie and
I go downtown
Somebody keeps telling me,
"Don't hang around"
It's been a long
A long time coming but
I know a change gon' come
Oh Yes it will

Then I go to my brother and I say,
I say "Brother help me please"
But he winds up knocking me back
down, back down on my knees

There've been times that I thought
I couldn't last for long
Now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long
A long time coming but
I know a change gon' come
Oh, yes it will
But I know a change gon' come