Lirik dan Chord Lagu A Change is Gonna Come - Otis Redding

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "A Change is Gonna Come" adalah lagu soul lawas yang kali pertama dinyanyikan oleh Sam Cooke.

Otis Redding membawakan kembali lagu ini untuk menghormati Sam yang meninggal akibat ditembak pada 1964.

Otis memasukkan lagu ini dalam album Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul yang rilis pada 1965.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Mr. Pitiful - Otis Redding

Simak lirik dan chord lagu "A Change is Gonna Come" versi Otis Redding berikut ini.

[Intro]
Ab                                               Bbm
I was born by a river in this little old tent
Bbm                                  Fm
Oh just like this river I've been running ever since

[Chorus]
Ab                               Bbm    Db
It's been a long long, long time coming
Db C                                   Fm
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
Ab
Oh yes it is
On my, oh my, oh my, oh my

[Verse 1]
Ab
It's been too hard living, oh my
Ab                     Bbm
And I'm afraid to die
Bbm                                   Fm
I don't know what's up there
Fm
Beyond the clouds

[Chorus]
Ab                              Bbm
It's been a long long, long time coming
Db                  C            Fm                        Bbm
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
Ab
Oh yes it is
Oh my

[Verse 2]
Bbm                                        Ab Bbm
There was a time I would go to my brother
Bbm                                          Fm                 Bbm
I asked my brother, "Will you help me please?"
Bbm                                                            Fm
He turned me down and then I ask my dear mother, oh
Bb7
I said "Mother!"
Bb7                                      Eb
I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"

Ab
It's been a time that I thought
Ab                                   Bbm
Lord this couldn't last for very long
Bbm                                                   Fm
But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on

[Chorus]
Ab                            Bbm
It's been a long long, long time coming
Bbm   Db C Fm
But I know a change is gonna come
Ab
Oh, yes it is

[Verse 3]
Bbm                                            Ab                                               Bbm
Just like I said, I went to my little bitty brother, my littlee brother
Bbm                                           Fm            Bbm
I asked my brother "Brother help me please?"
Bbm                                                 Fm                                      Bb
He turned me down and then I go to my little mother, my dear mother
Bb7
I said "Mother!"
                           Eb
I said "Mother! I'm down on my knees"

Ab
But there was a time that I thought
Ab                                               Bbm
Lord this couldn't last for very long
                                                    Fm
But somehow I thought I was still able to try to carry on

[Chorus]
Ab                         Bbm
It's been a long long, long time coming
Db                Cm                 Fm
But I know, but I know a change is gotta come
Fm                     Db                                     Cm
Ooh it's been so long, it's been so long, a little too long
Cm                       Fm
But a change has gotta come

[Outro]
Ab                                       Db
I'm so tired, so tired of standing by myself
Cm           C
And standing by myself
Fm
And standing up alone
Fm
But a change has gotta come
Fm
You know and I know
Fm               Db
You know that I know
Db                    Cm
I know that you know, honey
Cm                 Fm                              Ab Db
That a change is gonna come, oh my