A Change Is Going to Come Songtext
von Baby Huey

I was born by the river, in a little tent
But, oh, just like the river′s been on runnin', I′ve been runnin' ever since
It's been a long, a long time comin′
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh, yes it will

It′s been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die
′Cause my mama never told me what goes on beyond the sky
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh, yes it will

Say!
Like I said, I call to my brother
Say!
Brother, brother, would you help me, please?
Oh, they whine, so, that crazy town


What goes on, was spendin′ me
There was a time, thought I'd fall
I couldn′t learn, alone
But I wanna thank You, Jesus
Thank You for, for carrying me home

It's been a long, a long time comin'
But I know a change is gonna come, oh, yes it will

I want y′all to help me now
Hey!
Like I said, I call to my brother
Brother!
Brother, brother, would you help me, please?

Oh, they whine, so, that crazy town
What goes on, was spendin′ me
There was a time, thought I'd fall
I couldn′t learn, alone
But I know that you're out there, baby, and one day I′ll be back home

It's been a long, a long time comin′
But I know, some kind of change
I said a change, I said a change
A change has got to get on the way pretty soon, girl

A long, long time ago, I wondered if that change was gonna come, girl
But you know, it seems like I tried so hard to get back where I started from


It took about, it took about 20 years of very serious smoking
A few ups and downs
A few trips
Little space odyssey once in a while

To get back, to get back, to get back, to get back, to get back to bein', to bein' a kid all over again
But you know when you see a little boy or a little girl runnin′ down the street
Runnin′ to meet the popsicle truck and all of the sudden and you get to turn around and say, "Wow I'll be glad when this cat gets here, all these changes I′m goin' through"

Back home again, baby
Then comes the ages when you start drinkin′ wine
Takin' care of business at the drive-in-movies, and then one day your partner gives you one of those funny lookin′ cigarettes and says its time for you, for you to get mellow one mo' time
And after that first hit, the whole world sorta brightens up just a little bit

But you know I come from back, way back in Indiana where like we've still got outhouses, and brother′s wearin′ pointed toe shoes and carryin' 45s, but you know there′s, there's three kind of people in this world, that′s why I know a change has gotta come
I say there's white people, there′s black people and then there's my people

Oh, got to get on home now
Talkin' about a change
Has got to get underway, baby
I feel it comin′, I feel it comin′
I feel that it's coming pretty soon
Say!