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)