Parker Graham - A Change Is Gonna Come guitar tab

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 A# 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)

A# 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)