A Change Is Gonna Come (Album Version) - Otis Redding

Written by：Sam Cooke

I was born by a river in this little old tent

Oh just like this river I've been running ever since

It's been a long long time coming

But I know but I know a change is gotta come

Oh yes it is

On my

It's been too hard living oh my

And I'm afraid to die

I don't know what's up there

Beyond the clouds

It's been a long long time coming

But I know but I know a change is gotta come

Oh yes it is

On my

There was a time I would go to my brother

I asked my brother "Will you help me please "

He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother oh

I said "Mother "

I said "Mother I'm down on my knees"

It's been a time that I thought

Lord this couldn't last for very long

But somehow I thought

I was still able to try to carry on

It's been a long long time coming

But I know a change is gonna come

Oh yes it is

Just like I said I went to my little bitty brother

My littele brother

I asked my brother "Brother help me please "

He turned me down and

Then I go to my little mother my dear mother

I said "Mother "

I said "Mother I'm down on my knees"

But there was a time that I thought

Lord this couldn't last for very long

But somehow I thought

I was still able to try to carry on

It's been a long long time coming

But I know but I know a change is gotta come

Oh It's been a long

It's been a long

A little too long

A change is gotta come

So tired

So tired of standing by myself

It's been a long long time coming

You know that I know

You know that I know

I know that You knowthat a change is gotta come