Change

Editor's note: Just found out the link embedded above doesn't work cause HBO yelled copyright.
Try this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zDTHPY29HY . Thanks, K.

Bettye LaVette & Bon Jovi sang Sam Cooke's great "A Change is Gonna Come" at yesterday's pre-inaugural "We Are One" concert at the Lincoln Memorial. It doesn't get any better than this (in the video note the slight alteration of the lyrics' final line).

Here are Sam Cooke's words as he wrote them:

A Change is Gonna Come

I was born by the river in a little tent
And just like that river i've been running ever since
It's been a long time coming
But i know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

It's been too hard living, but i'm afraid to die
Cos i don't know what's out there beyond the sky
It's been a long, a long time coming
But i know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

And then i go to see my brother
And i ask him to help me please
And he just winds up knockin' me
Back down on my knees

There were times when i thought i couldn't last for long
But now i think i'm able to carry on
It's been a long, been a long time coming
But i know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will