A Change Is Gonna Come Chords by Otis Redding

[Start]

[Intro]
Eb Bbm7 Cm7 Bbm7 Gb Fm Eb
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[Verse]
      Ab                                                Bbm
I was born by a river oh man in this little old tent oh ■  
                     Fm                             
Just like this river ■  I've been running ever since
Ab               Bbm           Db    
It's been a long ■   long time coming
      C7                Fm                     
But I know but I know a ■  change is gotta come
Ab           
Ooo yes it is
               Ab      
Oh my oh my oh my oh my
     Ab                        
It's been too hard living oh my


[Chorus]
        Ab           
And I'm afraid to die
Bbm                    Fm   
I don't know what's up there
       Fm        
Beyond the clouds
Ab                    Bbm      Db    
It's been a long long ■   time coming


[Verse]
      C               Fm                    
But I know but I know a change is gotta come
Ab          
Oh yes it is
               Ab
Oh my oh my oh my
Bbm                        Ab                     Bbm
■   There's a time I would go to my brother oh my ■  
                                 Fm                    Bbm
I asked my brother Will you help me please oh my oh my ■  
                                 Fm               
He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother oh


[Chorus]
Bb7              
■   I said Mother
                       Eb          Eb7
I said Mother I'm down on my knees ■  
          Ab                   
It's been a time that I thought
Ab                                          
Lord this couldn't last for very long oh now


[Verse]
Bbm                                    Fm                   
But somehow I thought I was still able ■  to try to carry on
Ab               Bbm                 
It's been a long ■   long time coming
Db    C    Fm                       
But I know ■  a change is gonna come
Ab     Bbm      
Oh yes ■   it is
                                     Ab                                 Bbm    
Just like I said I went to my little bitty brother oh my little brother ■   now
                                Fm               Bbm
I asked my brother Brother help me please oh now ■  
                                Fm                                    Bb7   
He turned me down and then I go to my little mother my dear mother oh ■   my


[Chorus]
  Bb7        
I said Mother
                       Eb         
I said Mother I'm down on my knees
                Ab                 
But there was a time that I thought
                                         Bbm
Lord this couldn't last for very long oh my 
                              Fm                     
Somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on
Ab               Bbm             
It's been a long long time coming
Db    C               Fm                        
But I know but I know a change is gotta come ooo
             Db                       C          Cm  
It's been so long it's been so long a little too long
  Fm                   
A change has gotta come
                     Db                
So tired so tired of standing by myself
C7                   
And standing up alone
             Fm        
A change has gotta come
                                        Db  
You know and I know and you know that I know
       Cm                 
I know that you know honey
                 Fm                            Db C
That a change is gonna come oh yeah oh I gotta ■  ■


[End]