It’s been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come.
There been times when I thought I couldn’t last for long But now I think I’m able to carry on It’s been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will.
I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I’ve been running ever since.
You know, I’ll always be your slave ’til I’m buried, buried in my grave.
It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I’m not making a lot of money now either!
Don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology, don’t know much about a science book, don’t know much about the French I took.
Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.
Don’t know much about history Don’t know much biology.
Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that’s the sound of the men working on the chain gang.
Man, if I was back home, I’d be swinging with two chicks on my arms.
Well that’s very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.