Midzomerfeest (2):

The times they are a-changin'

Bob Dylan toen....
De Fellowshipcommissie voert de leden van Rotary Heerlen op 30 juni terug naar de sixties. Dat was na de rock 'n roll en de bebop. The times they are a-changin' zong Bob Dylan toen en nog steeds, want de tijden veranderen altijd:

Bob Dylan nu... 
The times they are a-changin' (foto: Volkskrant)

Come gather 'round people 

Wherever you roam 

And admit that the waters 

Around you have grown 

And accept it that soon 

You'll be drenched to the bone 

If your time to you 

Is worth savin' 

Then you better start swimmin' 

Or you'll sink like a stone 

For the times they are a-changin'. 

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

De sixties: de Nationale Garde met zwaaiende geweren plus bajonetten in opmars langs Springfield Avenue in Newark (New Jersey) op 14 juli 1967. Zesentwintig mensen werden gedood en 700 gewond bij rellen

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

The Watts Riots  in Los Angelos: 34 doden, 1032 gewonden: 1965

Come mothers and fathers 

Throughout the land 

And don't criticize 

What you can't understand 

Your sons and your daughters 

Are beyond your command 

Your old road is 

Rapidly agin' 

Please get out of the new one 

If you can't lend your hand 

For the times they are a-changin'. 

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

En de tijden bleven en blijven veranderen...