A Change Is Gonna Come chords by Otis Redding

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: AbAb

Difficulty: Novice

A augmentedA CHANGE IS GONNA COME
As recorded by Otis Redding
(From the 1965 Album OTIS BLUE/OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL)

Verse 1:
AbAb                       B minorBm
I was born by a river in this little old tent
B minorBm           F minorFm
Oh just like this river I've been running ever since
AbAb           B minorBm    DbDb
It's been a long long, long time coming
DbDb  C majorC         F minorFm
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
AbAb
Oh yes it is

Verse 2:
AbAb
It's been too hard living, oh my
AbAb          B minorBm
And I'm afraid to die
B minorBm              F minorFm
I don't know what's up there
F minorFm
Beyond the clouds
AbAb           B minorBm
It's been a long long, long time coming
DbDb     C majorC     F minorFm           B minorBm
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
AbAb
Oh yes it is

Bridge:
B minorBm               AbAb     B minorBm
There was a time I would go to my brother
B minorBm                 F minorFm     B minorBm
I asked my brother, "Will you help me please?"
B minorBm                 F minorFm
He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother, oh
B7B7
I said "Mother!"
B7B7             Eb MajorEb
I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"

Verse 3:
AbAb
It's been a time that I thought
AbAb                  B minorBm
Lord this couldn't last for very long
B minorBm                   F minorFm
But somehow I thought I was still able  to try to carry on
AbAb           B minorBm
It's been a long long, long time coming
B minorBm DbDb C majorC F minorFm
But I know a change is gonna come
AbAb
Oh, yes it is

Bridge:
B minorBm                  AbAb                B minorBm
Just like I said, I went to my little bitty brother, my littlee brother
B minorBm                 F minorFm    B minorBm
I asked my brother "Brother help me please?"
B minorBm               F minorFm                 B7B7
He turned me down and then I go to my little mother, my dear mother
B7B7
I said "Mother!"
             Eb MajorEb
I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"

Verse 4:
AbAb
But there was a time that I thought
AbAb                B minorBm
Lord this couldn't last for very long
                  F minorFm
But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on
AbAb           B minorBm
It's been a long long, long time coming
DbDb      C minorCm     F minorFm
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
F minorFm        DbDb             C minorCm
Ooh it's been so long, it's been so long, a little too long
C minorCm      F minorFm
But a change has gotta come

Outro:
AbAb            DbDb
I'm so tired, so tired of standing by myself
C minorCm    C majorC
And standing by my self
F minorFm
And standing up alone
F minorFm
But a change has gotta come
F minorFm
You know and i know
F minorFm      DbDb
You know that I know
DbDb     C minorCm
I know that you know, honey
C minorCm      F minorFm           AbAb  DbDb
That a change is gonne come, oh my