I was born by the river in a little tent Just like the river I've been running ever since It's been a long, long time coming but I know A change gonna come, ooh yes it will
It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die I don't know what's out there beyond the sky It's been a long, long, long time coming but I know A change gonna come, yes
And I go to the movies and I go downtown Everybody there keeps telling me, don't you come around It's been a long, oh it's been a long time coming But I know my change gonna come, oh oh yeah
Then I go, go to my brother I say brother help me please He just winds up knockin' me down Back down on my knees
Thereee wereee... times I thought, I wouldn't last too long But now know that I, I, I, I can carry on It's been a long, long time coming but I know My change is gonna come Ooh yeah It's gonna come..