Look how this world has made a change
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1. We see our friends are weeping with the badges on their door,
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we
see their homes in mourning for the loved ones come no more.
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You can say just what you please, death rides on every breeze,
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look
how this world has made a change !
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Just look how this world has made a change (made a change),
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just look how this world has made
a change (made a change) !
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You can see every day how the people pass away,
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look how this world has made a
change ! + instrumental = verse 1
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2. Our friends are passing over to some far distant shore,
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we seek
them and we call them, but they answer us no more.
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Their throbbing hearts today
tomorrow pass away,
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look
how this world has made a change !
+ CHORUS + instrumental = verse 2
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3. Dear sinner, o get ready, you must meet your god on high,
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for
death is all around you and it will not pass you by.
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Death knocks at every door, no
matter where you go,
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look
how this world has made a change !
+ CHORUS
(The Carter Family)