A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke Lyrics
21 Jan 2009


Album: Shake
Genre: Soul
Writer: Sam Cooke
Released: December, 1963

This song has recovered too much importance thanks to Obama presidency. In fact, once he won the United States presidental election, he made reference to the song in Chicago when he said: “It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, change has come to America. A Change is Gonna Come is the most representive song for the sixties’ Civil Rights Movement. It also was used by Otis Redding who included the single in his album Otis Blue in 1965. Sam Cook dead at the age of 33 when he was shot by the manager of a motel who explained that she killed him in self-defense when he threatened her. Last year, he was named the 4th Greatest Singer of All Time by the Rolling Stone Magazine.

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