Bach to Rap: Recent Episodes
Andrew Green
Lyrics:
Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around
Turn me around, turn me around.
Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around,
Keep on a walking, keep on a talking,
Marchin’ up to Freedom Land.
Ain’t gonna let segregation turn me around
Turn me around, turn me around.
Ain’t gonna let segregation turn me around,
Keep on a walking, keep on a talking,
Marchin’ up to Freedom Land.
Ain’t gonna let no jail house turn me around
Turn me around, turn me around.
Ain’t gonna let no jail house turn me around,
Keep on a walking, keep on a talking,
Marchin’ up to Freedom Land.
Ain’t gonna let no nervous Nellie turn me around
Turn me around, turn me around.
Ain’t gonna let no nervous Nellie turn me around,
Keep on a walking, keep on a talking,
Marchin’ up to Freedom Land.
Ain’t gonna let Chief Pritchett turn me around
Turn me around, turn me around.
Ain’t gonna let Chief Pritchett turn me around,
Keep on a walking, keep on a talking,
Marchin’ up to Freedom Land.
Ain’t gonna let Mayor Kelley turn me around
Turn me around, turn me around.
Ain’t gonna let Mayor Kelley turn me around,
Keep on a walking, keep on a talking,
Marchin’ up to Freedom Land.
Ain't gonna let no Uncle Tom turn me around
Turn me around, turn me around.
Ain’t gonna let no Uncle Tom turn me around,
Keep on a walking, keep on a talking,
Marchin’ up to Freedom Land.
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around
Turn me around, turn me around.
Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around,
Keep on a walking, keep on a talking,
Marchin’ up to Freedom Land.
Lyrics:
Come gather round people, wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon, you'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's naming
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside and it is raging
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.