Verse 1
They wouldnât let him play the Opry
With whiskey on his breath
And it didnât take them long
To figure out what theyâd missed
He went down that lost highway
Underneath that purple sky
A legend disappeared before his time
Things change
Verse 2
They said he was the devil
Dressed in gold lameâ
The way he shook his hips
Up there on that stage
But before that fateful day
When he left Tennessee
All of them were calling him "The King"
Things change
Verse 3 (Chords like Verse 2)
Well they like to call them hippies
Outlaws with guitars
But they brought a little poetry to the honky-tonks and bars
They might have got a little too crazy
They might have flown a little too high
But somewhere somebodyâs playing their songs tonight
Things change, donât you know they change
Solo
Verse 4 (Chords like verse 1)
Some say itâs too country
Some say itâs too rock and roll
But itâs just good music if you could feel it in your soul
And it doesnât really matter
It always looks the same
Life goes on but things change
Things change
Things change
Donât you know they change, yeah yeah yeah
Things, they keep me from changing
Gonna keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on changing
C G fade out
Cause things change
They wouldnât let him play the Opry
With whiskey on his breath
And it didnât take them long
To figure out what theyâd missed
He went down that lost highway
Underneath that purple sky
A legend disappeared before his time
Things change
Verse 2
They said he was the devil
Dressed in gold lameâ
The way he shook his hips
Up there on that stage
But before that fateful day
When he left Tennessee
All of them were calling him "The King"
Things change
Verse 3 (Chords like Verse 2)
Well they like to call them hippies
Outlaws with guitars
But they brought a little poetry to the honky-tonks and bars
They might have got a little too crazy
They might have flown a little too high
But somewhere somebodyâs playing their songs tonight
Things change, donât you know they change
Solo
Verse 4 (Chords like verse 1)
Some say itâs too country
Some say itâs too rock and roll
But itâs just good music if you could feel it in your soul
And it doesnât really matter
It always looks the same
Life goes on but things change
Things change
Things change
Donât you know they change, yeah yeah yeah
Things, they keep me from changing
Gonna keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on changing
C G fade out
Cause things change