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Come gather 'round Hobbits
Wherever you roam
And admit that the ruffians
Around you have grown
And accept it that you'll be
Turned out of your homes
If your Shire to you is worth savin'
Then you better start scourin'
Or you'll sink like Orod-na-Thôn
For the Age it is a-changin'
Come seers like Malbeth who prophesize in verse
And keep your eyes wide
The Dead are under a curse
And don't speak too soon
For Mount Doom's going to burst
And there's no tellin' who that it's flamin'
For the Orc-hordes now
Will get beaten the worst
For the Age it is a-changin'
Come Rohirrim, Dunlendings, please heed the call
Leave your weapons at the doorway of the Golden Hall
For he that does not
Must clean the Mearas' stalls
There's a battle outside
And it's ragin'
It'll soon ram your gates
And batter your walls
For the Age it is a-changin'
Come Sackvilles and Proudfoots
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your Tooks and your Gamgees
Are beyond your command
The old road goes ever on and on
Please get out of the new one
If you can't fight Sauron
For the Age it is a-changin'
The white wizard's Gandalf
The brown's Radagast
The King will return
And reign at Fornost
As the present now
Will later be past
The Elves are rapidly fadin'
And the One Ring into
Mount Doom will be tossed
For the Age it is a-changin'