A Change Is Gonna Come Chords by Otis Redding

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_ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ [Gb] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
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I was born _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in this little old tent
[Bbm] Oh, _ _ just like this river
[Fm] _ I've been running ever since
[Ab] It's been a long, _ long [Bbm] _ _ _ [Db] time coming _
[C] _ [Fm] _ _ Change has gotta come now
Oh [Ab] yes it is
[Db] Oh [Ab] man, oh man
_ It's been too hard living
Oh, I'm _ _ _ afraid to [Bbm] die
_ _ I don't know what's up [Db] [Fm] there
_ _ Beyond the clouds
[Ab] It's been a _ long, _ long [Bbm] _ _ time [Db] coming
I [C] know, I [Fm] know
Change has gotta _ come
Oh [Ab] yes it is _ _ _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ There's a time
I [Ab] would go to my brother
_ Oh, _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] help me
_ _ Oh, I [Ab] know
[Bbm] _ _ _ He'd turn me down
And then [Fm] I'd ask my dear mother
Oh, stand [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] on my _ _ _ knees
[Ab] It's been a hard, _ _ _ _ _ long, long time
Oh, man, [Bbm] oh
_ _ Somehow I thought [Db] I was in labor
[Fm] _ To try to carry on
[Ab] It's been a _ long, _ _
_ [Bbm] long time [Db] coming
And I [C] know
_ [Fm] _ Change is gonna come
[Ab] Oh yes it [Db] is
_ [Ab] Like _ [Bbm] _ _ I said, I went to [Ab] my little brother
_ Oh, my little brother
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _
He'd [Bbm] _ _ _ _ turn me down
And [Fm] then I'd go to my little mother
My dear mother
Oh, [Bb] now, I'm _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] down on my _ _ knees
_ [Ab] _ _ Oh, I know _
Let _ _ me know
[Bbm] Oh, I know
_ _ Somehow I thought I was in [Fm] labor
_ To try to carry on
_ [Ab] It's been a long, long _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ time [Db] coming
_ [C] _
_ [Fm] _ Change has gotta come
So _
_ [Db] _ _ _ [C] long I've lived
But [Fm] change has gotta come
So _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ [C] long, [Fm] but change has gotta come
You know it, and I know it
You know [Db] that, _ you know [C] it
You know, [Cm] you know
That [Fm] change is gonna come _ _ _ _ _