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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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'cause 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 |
