#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## I have transcribed this song of Sam Cooke (sorry for mistakes!) as it's performed by Graham Parker in his concert "Live! Alone in America". I hope to put in this archive other songs of this finest english songwriter in the future and in the meantime ... enjoy it! Angelo Taibi e-mail:taibi@ferrara.infn.it A CHANGE IS GONNA COME (capo on the 1st fret!) F I was born by the river in a little tent Gm Dm and just like this river I'll be running ever since F Gm Bb Am Rit: it's been a long, long time coming but I know Dm F change it's gonna come oooh yes it is F It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die Gm Dm I don't know what's out there, there are only clouds Rit: it's been a ... Gm F There was a time I will go to my brother Gm Dm I say you brother (I say you brother) help me please Gm F he turned me down and then I go to my mother (oh my mother) Bb C I say you mother I'm down on my knee F There was a time when I thought Gm Dm I would last too long somehow I was able to carry on Rit: it's been a ... (three times)