[Intro]
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You look good out there, baby
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I was born by the river in a little tent
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Oh, just like the river, I been running ever since
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It's been a long, a long time coming
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But I know a change is gonna come
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Oh, yes it will, look it here
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It's been too hard living and I'm afraid to die
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Look it here
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Cuz I don't know what's up there beyond the sky
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It's been a long
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I wish I could come out there where you are baby
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A long time coming but I know
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Look it here
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A change is gonna come, oh yes it will
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Look it here
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Let me say one more thing
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I go to the movie and I go downtown
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But I don't like it here
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Somebody keep telling me oh boy, don't hang around
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It's been a long, a long
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If anybody know what I'm talking about
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Lemme see you wave your hands
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I know a chance gonna come, oh yes it will
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But I gotta take, say this here
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Then I go to my brother, yes sir
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And I tell 'em, I say brother help me please
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But he winds up knockin' me
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He knocks me back down, back down on my
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Oh there's been times that I fall
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Somebody say yeah
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Life could pass me on, no no
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I know I'm able, I'm able, I'm able
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I'm able to carry on
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It's been a long, good God almighty
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A long time coming but I know, yeah
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A change is gonna come, oh yes it will
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Look it here, one more time
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Then I go to my brother
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Somebody take your hands back and forth like this
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Everybody, everybody
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You sittin' in the first balcony too
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All over the auditorium tonight
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But he winds up knocking me down, my
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Back down on, back down on my knee oh
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I've been down but I thought I could last
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Oh, I know I'm able, I'm able, I'm able
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I know, I know, I know a change gonna come
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And oh yes it will
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Somebody say yeah
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You all back here, lemme hear ya say yeah
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Somebody say oh yeah
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Somebody say oh yeah
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Somebody say yeah
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Whoa, right on
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A Change Is Gonna Come
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| Al Green |
