My two best friends recently died. One of them a month ago, the other a year ago. One night the three of us were hanging out on a Saturday night having ourselves a good time, laughing and driving around when my friend in the passenger seat asked my friend sitting in the backseat to sing for us. My friend in the backseat could sing very well and was in a gospel group with his brothers. He sang "a change gonna come". Little did I know that he was going to end up singing it to his funeral months later and now he's gone now too. These men were literally like brothers to me and now each time I hear this beautiful song, I dedicate it to them. Junie and JD, this is for you. My brothers
When my daughter turned 13 yo (1992) I presented her with a CD of Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits. As she got older, she continuously reminded me about receiving the music and how much she loved Sam's voice. All I could say was 'Wait until you understand what he was singing, not just the tune or the melody'.
Barbi Button we’re not at a point that satisfy humanity today and we’re fighting but during centuries before us, people were already struggling for a better world and the freedom that we know today as the freedom that we have to aim is not the freedom that humans were fighting for a few years ago : this was harder to believe in because the freedom is searching everyday above the limits that were posed yesterday because of the fights that we all still have today and the fights that people had before us sacrificing their lives for better days. I think that what he meant by the « freedom we know today ».
This always brings me to tears as well in spite of the fact that I'm a 71 year old white dude in Toronto, Canada. It just evokes a universal appeal for everyone to be a better person and realize that we all need each other.
When brother Sam says “There’s been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long but now I think I’m able to carry on” it takes every muscle in my face to keep me from crying wheww only God knows how we feel. Amen
What BS. Stop your pity party. You live in the USA where 50% of the world is trying to come to, including many Africans. We have the greatest economy in the world. Did you know your father? Do have a HS diploma? Do you have a job? Any kids? Work hard, build wealth and take care of your kids so they have a father who loves them and can guide them into a better life. Read more and weep for yourself a whole lot less. PS Sam was not your "brother".
@@thomasluby1754 lmao idk where you got the notion our economy is the best in the world, and saying Sam isn’t his brother would be like tell you conservatives Jesus is a false prophet, and that would piss you off, now wouldn’t it
@@thomasluby1754 : Do you realize there still isn't equality in this country? Anytime I walk down the street and I am stopped because they don't think I belong in the neighborhood. I bought a home in a nice neighborhood where my white neighbors don't think I belong. So many blacks have to deal with that. Our home appraisals are valued at so much less but ask your white friend to stay and put up pictures of her white family and boom it's value is 100k higher. It's that shit that makes things hard. It is me being looked over for a promotion but the person they picked has zero experience but the customer wanted someone white to represent her. They obliged because she brings millions to the company. I get so tired. It happens so many times to black folks and we get tired. Maybe Africans should stay in Africa instead of allowing other countries to take their resources. Oh yeah. They can't. They sold off their best and brightest in the slave trade.
I cry Everytime I hear this song. it makes me think back on all the trials and tribulations I've gone through and survived and I thank God for bringing me through it and for making me who I am today because of it.
I am not black. I am not African. But I am human, and I know enough that his pain is nothing like I can ever imagine feeling. It pains me to hear him sing and it makes me cry each time but I cannot help but listen because it's much too honest not to. Thank you Sam Cooke for allowing me to feel a little part of your pain. "...born by the river, and like the river, I've been running ever since."
& I ; WILL CONTINUE, TO RUN AS LONG, AS I BREATH, RUN FOR, GOD & WHAT IS !!!!FAIR & RIGHT!!!! IN THIS WORLD, THANK YOU FATHER GOD; FOR SAM; IF JUST FOR A SHORT WHILE.
Matthew 25:31-33 "But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. "All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.
When I was in rehab going through a very hard detox from heroin the director played this song and it made me cry 😢 Seven years later I still play this song !!! Change did come 🥹
Currently in rehab. First week detox. I’m starting to feel emotions again. I’m realizing the pain and suffering I’ve caused my family. I’m trying my vest to be an honest person again and you know that us addicts have to fight like hell because our lives depend on being clean. This morning I was outside smoking and this popped into my head. Played it out loud on my phone because I sold my headphones and speakers for drug money (of course), and I realized the change came right there. I hope you did too, and I hope you’re still clean. If not, get your shit together right now because you’re gonna die and be remembered as a junky. It’s up to us. I’m sorry for this comment being a little all over the place. I’m only a few days clean and I can’t think right yet. All the best, Jennifer.
So excited to hear your story and triumph over this ordeal. I'm right there with you with my addition and I'm glad to say I'm two years sober. Bless you and continue that path!
Man i just lost my grandad and i cant help but cry when i hear that cause it hits my SOUL. Mu grandad marched with Dr. King and I never got to get close to him cause my dad didnt wanna live right.
I first heard this song in the summer of 1964. I was in the Army in Germany when my brothers turned me onto it. It quickly became the Black National Anthem. It remains one of the most powerful songs I have ever heard.
@@annamaccow7763 He says he helps those who help themselves! the longest journey starts with the first step, so, let's start by doing that what needs to be done & not waiting for the lord to do what we could be doing. Getting crooked & corrupt officials out of office, voting those in who have the same agenda & are willing to fight for our interest etc. That is what Sam meant.
Every time I hear this song I cry it's so sad we live in evil world,and all he wanted was a change for all of us,and it's so said the way he die,he was on to something to make a change in this world thank God we have Jesus Christ
this song gives me hope. i did a 7 1/2 year sentence and ive been out for about 3 years now and its been a long road but when i hear this song it give me the strength to keep pushing on for a brighter day. thank you sam cook
Why do we always have to mention our race in order to make a point or just to comment on something? We have to stop doing that, you loving the song has nothing to do with your race.
@@ronaldbrown5842 Maybe you are too young to understand that race has been an issue in this country for a VERY long time. Maybe you just do not see it, or do not want to see it, but the color of the skin has made some people in this country COMPLETELY unable to access certain freedoms and opportunities that we all have the right to live with. That is why the above posters mention race. It is good to see that they have the sensibility to feel and empathize. I fell into this page as I researched the play Fences.
@@ronaldbrown5842 This was written during the civil rights movement, so it has a lot to do with the injustice of racial division we are sadly revisiting. We seek connection and music unites us more than anything.💙
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
I wish he had lived long enough to hear Whitney Houston. I he had been still been around and still singing, they would have collaborated for sure for at least a song or two.
57 years to the day the world has been without Sam Cooke. The world needed more of this great man, but this song will be his long lasting legacy that will impact every generation to come. Love you, Sam, hope you’re resting easy
I miss him somehow. And he was gunned down recklessly 2 decades before I was even a twinkle in my father's eye. It makes me sick. He had so so so much more to give. He's just that good soul you inherently know if that makes sense.
There are many like him still fighting and living the struggle but they are not wealthy nor singers so they do not matter...even to their own kind. Make the change happen, don't wait for it to happen.
@ a name Sam was probably killed by some cia or black ops agent because of his straight to the point lyrics and sheer musical genius...I'm sure they thought he would be a threat to the fragile peace and state of the nation back then...Such paranoia does the nation such an injustice...
One of the greatest songs of all time, if not the greatest. Words cannot describe how much I enjoy this song, at 15 years old it's one of the only songs that makes me emotional, it's the passion, and pain in his voice, it's empowering, especially as a mixed raced boy.
The late great Sam Cooke for me the greatest of them all I saw him in concert at Briin the UK. I moved to London a few months later. Got a paper coming out of the tube station. Sam Cooke shot.i couldn't believe it. What a great loss. I visited my son.Sam Cooke was playing. How come your playing that well I heard him enough growing up. His voice lives on.
This really gets to me, 74 white vet, soldiered with a lot of black buddies, I hope they think of me sometime and our friendship, you’ll give your life for your friends❤️
Hoping that a change is gonna come is all that gets me through the day most of the time. I have shared this song many times when it looks like there isn't any hope just to remind us what is possible if we hold on and fight.
Ive lost count how many times I've cried listening to this song, so powerful and so sad that it's 2020 and we as a country are STILL dealing with this S**t smh. Lord help us ALL! 😔😔😭
sadly never it gonna change it 2020 and nothing chance since . they need racism to stay here to keep people duvided so elite can stay in control of everybody the system in build off division. so many songs came out for a change nothing change yet still in the same mess
I’m a white boy from Oregon in my 20s and I just started learning about Sam Cooke and how dirty the music industry did him. I mean this guy has an absolutely amazing voice he needs more love
I'm a white woman, in my 60's, from the Metro area of D.C. Sam Cooke is REVERED~as one of the ICONS of the music in his day. I've listened to him since I can remember~and still do! He was my husband's favorite artist. Now, my hubby has a front-row seat, in Heaven, (2006) listening to the angelic voice of Mr. Cooke.
@@dawnnojabsmama7328 Not true, Dawn. He was shot and killed by an L.A. motel clerk. He had rented a room with a younger lady who later fled the scene. Looking for the young lady; Mr.Cooke was confronted by the clerk, Ms. Franklin, and a scuffle ensued in which, she killed him. The music industry did not kill him. Did they abuse/take advantage of the artists of that day? Yes. There are many "theories" out there. Peace Out~especially in 2021. :)
+Samantha Hines You get it too! it's just very personal to me. it just makes me think of all the struggles in my life but I know a change is going to come
I listen to this song everyday. I know people on here say this is a civil rights movement song and not any of the other movements and that's true but let me tell u what I use it for. In a short amount of time I went through my uncle having been murdered, grandmother die and my soulmate, which I have two kids with cheat on me with my best friend then leave me. Thought about suicide but I know a change is gonna come and I can carry on. The Song is about pushing through and getting stronger even when you can't see the change over the horizon yet.
BS!!!!! That song resonates ONLY with the people, of which he is a part of. He wasn't talking about none of you other Co-opting Mfers. Listen to the words
Please present verified evidence that "We're all equal", when you do, I will get over it. When did it come true? Best regards to Fox News, Limbaugh, Breibart, David Duke, and the White House Staff.
I’ve been faced with a moral dilemma... I honestly really want to like your comment... but it has 69 likes and I think it’d be wrong to ruin that for you
Thank you for serving. My husband with the 101st over there. He is thankful he survived as well. He says his mission was to stay alive ...Never did find out why we were really there.. But so glad you are here.
I remember my father listening to this song many, many times. I was a small child, so i didn't understand that it was a message of freedom, but I do now. I am in my early 60s now. I was raised to look beyond skin color, sex, race, gender identity, sexual preferences, and not to judge people by these. My parents stood by their beliefs all their lives. I now stand by them, too. We are all equal in God's eyes.
Just watched the Sam Cooke documentary on Netflix. What a pure and loving soul, all he wanted for him and his ppl was EQUALITY... we’re still waiting on that change to come Mr.Cooke!!
58 years without Sam Cooke. God bless Sam, his entire family, and the fans that keep his music alive today. He is the greatest singer to ever live, and forever will be. Never let the music of this powerful, amazing man die out.
This song and, thus, Sam Cooke, will never die. As long as injustice persists -- one of the worst parts human nature, consciously eliminated from some folks but heavily practiced by others -- this song is relevant to the max.
The Civil Rights anthem. It doesnt get any better. Sam Cooke is the greatest singer this planet earth has ever heard! R.I.P. to the late great Sam Cooke. An icon!!
I've said this before on other platforms, but IMHO Sam Cooke was right up there with Bobby Hatfield, Michael Jackson, and Aretha for pure vocal talent. A CRIMINALLY underrated singer and completely unappreciated singer nowadays.
“ it’s been too hard living, but im afraid to die. Cause i don’t know what’s up there beyond the sky..” Amen brother... stay blessed this year everyone.
Today marks 59 years since the tragedy of Sam Cookes death. We’ll never truly know why this great man was murdered, but we will forever be thankful for his contribution to music and society. A great artist makes a great song, a legend makes a great impact. Sam Cooke is the definition of a legend. May God rest his soul, and may his music be listened to long after we’re gone.
I think it's pretty clear why Sam Ccooke "was murdered," unless you ignore the obvious, as well as two corroborating witnesses, both corroborated by polygraph. I think our entire culture needs to stop calling rapists "great men."
This song is pure gold. As a young child I listened to my late father play his Sam Cooke records. I always loved that voice and songs like Wonderful World, Cupid, You Send Me were really beautiful, but when I listened to A Change Is Gonna Come, even as a young lad that song used to hit me in a kind of spiritual way. As I grew a bit older and really understood the meaning of the song it all made sense. I've been listening to it for over 40 years and I believe it's one of the greatest and most important tracks ever recorded.
@@cooper523 You're right. Sam Cooke had an amazing and beautiful voice. His songs like You Send Me, Wonderful World, Cupid, Chain Gang, A Change Is Gonna Come, Bring It On Home To Me are truly classic song's. It's such a shame that young people don't listen to these beautiful gems. If they did maybe it would influence them in a good way. I know that voice and the songs really hit me even when i was young and they have stayed with me to this day. When i play a Sam Cooke record it just makes me feel better.
So very true so few see both sides of pretty much everything he is with the other music greats geniuses and among those yet to come along but some things just aren't meant to happen in our time but through great suffering and change great things do arise and come to those truly Godly meant to be blessed by their own understanding and I pray that everyone gets to see and accomplish helping all those in a positive way that they want or need to in Jesus great and holy name amen and to everyone near far or wherever you are right now merry Christmas and wether your able to hear or know you are loved and needed
I’m 14,and this song just delivered me.I don’t know how but it just saves my life from a lot of things,Thank you Sam Cooke for this song i hope it changes the 21st century 🥺🤧
I remembering being an child ignorant of the worlds problems and still cried to this and now as an adult overwhelmed with the peoples pain and the worlds troubles I cry again to this song. So beautiful.
Your throat was kissed by GOD, HIMSELF, Mr. Cooke. One of the best singing voices in my humble opinion I have ever heard since my birth, 1976. Music has always been by biggest, #1 Love of my life. However you left this world, Mr. Cooke, I hope to meet you someday, when you sing this song because you wanted to, not because you had to. 😊❤
I am a white man that remembers this song from the beginning. Toooooo Powerfull!! Close all the recording studios for ALL men singers. NO ONE CAN BEAT THIS. God Bless you Sam
i lived through the civil rights movement when this song was extremely popular its a dam shame this nation is still divided because people still dont know how to live like people!!!!!!!!
@@thomasluby1754 this is a song from the 1960s ... why do you think he decided to write, record, and sing this song? He felt the pain of these times, the segregation, the hate, but he saw a better future and you can hear it in this song right here. You’re so ignorant and blind, open your eyes to what history was and how it affects today. I could insult you, but I could never stoop to a racist’s level.
I agree and funnily enough, as I said to #DrPaulMiller very recently, our music sounds the way it does because it conveys our cry of injustice ... their souls are crying for us.
God showed me a very short vision of Sam Cooke. He was standing on stage , looking directly into my eyes as he sung a song I’d never heard of into his microphone 🎙️It was so surreal and clear. May his soul rest 🙏🏾
Yeah so many have tried but Cooke owned this song. You can feel that he meant every single word he sang and had actually lived it. There's a unique strength and soulfulness in his voice that no other singer has been able to replicate.
I was listening to this in bathroom and I look up into a mirror dead at my own eyes into my soul realizing how much time I've had, spent and wasted and how lucky I am to be standing on my two feet healthy and alive and blessed to be on this world and realizing that I need to stop wasting time and that there might never be a change to come so I'm going to do my best to make that change happen before I leave this buetiful world and I'm only 14 so i was lucky to see this before it was to late
Toxic YOU ARE THE MOTIVATOR.YOU ARE THE MUSTARD SEED THAT MOVES THE MOUNTAIN.THE GERM,IDEA.ITZ MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ATOMIC BOMB.ITZ THE WORD.ABBA,MY AND YOUR FATHER.6 IS HIS UNIVERSAL NUMBER OF LOVE.THATZ THE KEY.GET BUSY.
I first heard this when I was a young boy I'm 38 now and even back then I pictured a beautiful scene of America and her people loving and laughing and having a great time united as a country ya know!? Lord help us now !!
I can't think of any other song that stirs this kind of emotion. As you get older your feel it more. I pray Sam is resting in peace. I hope he knows the masterpiece he left us.
My boyfriend Brien passed away only 7 months ago at the age of only 32. He use to play this song so much and would sing it with so much passion. Now this song makes me cry. Hold on to the ones you love guys bc once their gone that's it.
My grandad passed away a month ago, and this was one of the songs we’ve played at his funeral. Sam cooke was his favorite artist and we’ve always listened to him when dropping me off and picking me up from elementary school. I will always cherish those times.
Leaving a comment here so that whoever likes this i can come back and listen to this masterpiece ❤❤
My two best friends recently died. One of them a month ago, the other a year ago. One night the three of us were hanging out on a Saturday night having ourselves a good time, laughing and driving around when my friend in the passenger seat asked my friend sitting in the backseat to sing for us. My friend in the backseat could sing very well and was in a gospel group with his brothers. He sang "a change gonna come". Little did I know that he was going to end up singing it to his funeral months later and now he's gone now too. These men were literally like brothers to me and now each time I hear this beautiful song, I dedicate it to them. Junie and JD, this is for you. My brothers
prayers up bro.
prayers to you my bro
May the love of the Holy Spirit be with you, dear.
RIP to the soul bros.
❤️
When my daughter turned 13 yo (1992) I presented her with a CD of Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits. As she got older, she continuously reminded me about receiving the music and how much she loved Sam's voice. All I could say was 'Wait until you understand what he was singing, not just the tune or the melody'.
Oh For Sure 👍 ❤ RIP Sam Cooke
What a great gift ❤
One of the most beautiful songs ever written
Listening to this in the dark with headphones and my eyes closed took me to another place. Spiritual.
SMMFH, me too Emotional , I cry every time.!!,💧💧❣
Man this song touches my soul.
Marcus Hayes I believe you brother
It coming keep believing
It coming
Sam Cooke recorded this song on January 30, 1964.
60 years ago.
What a song!
My forever favourite 🙏
❤️
Let's be the change,; all of us, TOGETHER
My Birthday. I love this song.
My first favorite song of his. I was 8 yrs young when I first heard it . Plays it all the time on my CD player now 😇👀🔥
One of my favorite.
Some people come into this world for a short period of time to give a strong message and gift to the world. Sam Cooke was one of those individuals.
marline123eagle thats cool I like that
@@flickenchicken9868 Thank you
You said it.
SMMFH, Very well SAID.!!😪😪😪👍🙏🙏
marline123eagle “Some musicians are tragic figures. Sam Cooke just had a tragic end”. RIP
Wow! A universal song for all mankind.😢
Bless all those who have marched for and died for the freedom we know today.
Freedom? Hmmm.
We're not there yet
And we need to continue fighting for those who come after us. Justice has not been served.
Barbi Button we’re not at a point that satisfy humanity today and we’re fighting but during centuries before us, people were already struggling for a better world and the freedom that we know today as the freedom that we have to aim is not the freedom that humans were fighting for a few years ago : this was harder to believe in because the freedom is searching everyday above the limits that were posed yesterday because of the fights that we all still have today and the fights that people had before us sacrificing their lives for better days. I think that what he meant by the « freedom we know today ».
Yes. And continue to do so
Can't help but shed tears and feel chills when I hear this...
Everytime😔🙏🏾😔
One of the most beautiful and touching songs ever❤️
This always brings me to tears as well in spite of the fact that I'm a 71 year old white dude in Toronto, Canada. It just evokes a universal appeal for everyone to be a better person and realize that we all need each other.
Same here
" Now That Ain't No Secret!! 🤔 🥀 😔" rest in peace you and "Otis Redding! 05/18/2021 "MaMa DeeDee 🙏🏿 ❤️ 🖤 💚 ✊🏾
When brother Sam says “There’s been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long but now I think I’m able to carry on” it takes every muscle in my face to keep me from crying wheww only God knows how we feel. Amen
What BS. Stop your pity party. You live in the USA where 50% of the world is trying to come to, including many Africans. We have the greatest economy in the world. Did you know your father? Do have a HS diploma? Do you have a job? Any kids? Work hard, build wealth and take care of your kids so they have a father who loves them and can guide them into a better life. Read more and weep for yourself a whole lot less. PS Sam was not your "brother".
@@thomasluby1754 lmao idk where you got the notion our economy is the best in the world, and saying Sam isn’t his brother would be like tell you conservatives Jesus is a false prophet, and that would piss you off, now wouldn’t it
This song really hits home the words speak the truth 🎶🎼🎤
@@thomasluby1754 : Do you realize there still isn't equality in this country? Anytime I walk down the street and I am stopped because they don't think I belong in the neighborhood. I bought a home in a nice neighborhood where my white neighbors don't think I belong. So many blacks have to deal with that. Our home appraisals are valued at so much less but ask your white friend to stay and put up pictures of her white family and boom it's value is 100k higher. It's that shit that makes things hard. It is me being looked over for a promotion but the person they picked has zero experience but the customer wanted someone white to represent her. They obliged because she brings millions to the company. I get so tired. It happens so many times to black folks and we get tired. Maybe Africans should stay in Africa instead of allowing other countries to take their resources. Oh yeah. They can't. They sold off their best and brightest in the slave trade.
@@thomasluby1754 stop spreading lies to make yourself feel better
Those were the times when Music had Soul , Singers had Exceptional Voices , Lyrics had Meanings and SAM COOK was one of these Timeless Singers.
Exactly ❤
Not like now. No talent, the music of today I don't listen to nor watch. Raw talent gone too soon..
I cry Everytime I hear this song. it makes me think back on all the trials and tribulations I've gone through and survived and I thank God for bringing me through it and for making me who I am today because of it.
TRUMP16....Change has arrived!
John Lennon Jnr change yes but which way?
With Trump it will not be good change.
In a better way than the alternative
Lionel Jones Don't cry rejoice in the present cause you made through your past that will lead you to an awesome future.
I am not black. I am not African. But I am human, and I know enough that his pain is nothing like I can ever imagine feeling. It pains me to hear him sing and it makes me cry each time but I cannot help but listen because it's much too honest not to. Thank you Sam Cooke for allowing me to feel a little part of your pain. "...born by the river, and like the river, I've been running ever since."
:')
💞💞
& I ; WILL CONTINUE, TO RUN AS LONG, AS I BREATH, RUN FOR, GOD & WHAT IS !!!!FAIR & RIGHT!!!! IN THIS WORLD, THANK YOU FATHER GOD; FOR SAM; IF JUST FOR A SHORT WHILE.
Matthew 25:31-33
"But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. "All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.
Very WELL SPOKEN AND HEART felt. THANK you for being so HONEST!May GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS!
When I was in rehab going through a very hard detox from heroin the director played this song and it made me cry 😢
Seven years later I still play this song !!! Change did come 🥹
Good for u. Hope you're still doing well!
AMEN ❤
Jennifer, I hope your still in the same spirit, love you, congratulations on being amazing and fantastic
Currently in rehab. First week detox. I’m starting to feel emotions again. I’m realizing the pain and suffering I’ve caused my family. I’m trying my vest to be an honest person again and you know that us addicts have to fight like hell because our lives depend on being clean. This morning I was outside smoking and this popped into my head. Played it out loud on my phone because I sold my headphones and speakers for drug money (of course), and I realized the change came right there. I hope you did too, and I hope you’re still clean. If not, get your shit together right now because you’re gonna die and be remembered as a junky. It’s up to us. I’m sorry for this comment being a little all over the place. I’m only a few days clean and I can’t think right yet. All the best, Jennifer.
So excited to hear your story and triumph over this ordeal. I'm right there with you with my addition and I'm glad to say I'm two years sober. Bless you and continue that path!
I am 65 and I will always keep believing that change is gon come❤❤
Song gives me chills everytime especially when he says "its been too hard living but I'm afraid to die".
That part man
Factz
YESSS. that part :(
I swear 💯 I just break down
Man i just lost my grandad and i cant help but cry when i hear that cause it hits my SOUL. Mu grandad marched with Dr. King and I never got to get close to him cause my dad didnt wanna live right.
@@isiaihbooker4083 Sweet heart ❤ ♥ 💓 💖 your grandfather is with you. Hold on to him in your heart ❤
I first heard this song in the summer of 1964. I was in the Army in Germany when my brothers turned me onto it. It quickly became the Black National Anthem. It remains one of the most powerful songs I have ever heard.
Yes it is
Thank you for your SERVICE!
💜💜💜💜👍👍
Thank you for your service
Thank also for your service and hope all is well i salute to you
One of the most powerful songs ever written.....and so true!
Amen!!!!
@@annamaccow7763 He says he helps those who help themselves! the longest journey starts with the first step, so, let's start by doing that what needs to be done & not waiting for the lord to do what we could be doing. Getting crooked & corrupt officials out of office, voting those in who have the same agenda & are willing to fight for our interest etc. That is what Sam meant.
YES, Marvin I know this; but all of us don't think alike!
Sure it’s move me till now
Hi Connie how are you doing
💯
Had to come back to this masterpiece
Every time I hear this song I cry it's so sad we live in evil world,and all he wanted was a change for all of us,and it's so said the way he die,he was on to something to make a change in this world thank God we have Jesus Christ
Sam Cooke was soul in human form. That brother had pipes.
this song gives me hope. i did a 7 1/2 year sentence and ive been out for about 3 years now and its been a long road but when i hear this song it give me the strength to keep pushing on for a brighter day. thank you sam cook
Adam Douglas I know it does the same thing to me and I take it one day at a time
God speed bro
I hope 🙏 you have an easy time real soon
I am 65, have loved this man's songs for years! I wish he was still with us!
What a horrible loss!
Still with us just listen!
Hello Rhonda
@@robertevans1486 So right, still listening!
@@rhondaboncutter5812 Hello, how are you doing, hope your staying safe?
I'm a white guy and I gotta tell you, this song touched my soul and I'm praying that a change will come
I’m a white girl who loves R&B. I was so shocked at DISCO that this is where I stayed.
Why do we always have to mention our race in order to make a point or just to comment on something?
We have to stop doing that, you loving the song has nothing to do with your race.
@@ronaldbrown5842 Maybe you are too young to understand that race has been an issue in this country for a VERY long time. Maybe you just do not see it, or do not want to see it, but the color of the skin has made some people in this country COMPLETELY unable to access certain freedoms and opportunities that we all have the right to live with. That is why the above posters mention race. It is good to see that they have the sensibility to feel and empathize. I fell into this page as I researched the play Fences.
Amen
@@ronaldbrown5842 This was written during the civil rights movement, so it has a lot to do with the injustice of racial division we are sadly revisiting. We seek connection and music unites us more than anything.💙
I think this is one of the best songs ever made. God bless
Hello,how are you doing ?
One of the most important song in African American history
In human history.
This is the most important song.
Mr Irish **African American HISTORY
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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this song always sends chills through me cause it's such a powerful song
Right on there brother.
Stay dangerous brother
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I get chills like ever other word
If you don't get chills by this song you are numb and no heart
There has never been another Sam Cook. He could take any song & make it his own. Sam Cook will never be forgotten! ♥️♥️♥️
I wish he had lived long enough to hear Whitney Houston. I he had been still been around and still singing, they would have collaborated for sure for at least a song or two.
John Legend is even better, respectfully.
I can’t get through this song without crying. How is a song from the 60s still this relevant today? Sad, man.
Me either it's really sad 😭
Same man
I am so sorry this song is still relevant today. Tears are flowing here too my friends. Aloha to all 🤙🏻😢☮🌎
💔❤️❤️❤️😢
Because you keep voting democrats in
57 years to the day the world has been without Sam Cooke. The world needed more of this great man, but this song will be his long lasting legacy that will impact every generation to come. Love you, Sam, hope you’re resting easy
I miss him somehow. And he was gunned down recklessly 2 decades before I was even a twinkle in my father's eye. It makes me sick. He had so so so much more to give. He's just that good soul you inherently know if that makes sense.
There are many like him still fighting and living the struggle but they are not wealthy nor singers so they do not matter...even to their own kind.
Make the change happen, don't wait for it to happen.
@@timothyhyena3106 Unsure what your point is
@ a name
Sam was probably killed by some cia or black ops agent because of his straight to the point lyrics and sheer musical genius...I'm sure they thought he would be a threat to the fragile peace and state of the nation back then...Such paranoia does the nation such an injustice...
❤👏🏼👏🏼
One of the greatest songs of all time, if not the greatest. Words cannot describe how much I enjoy this song, at 15 years old it's one of the only songs that makes me emotional, it's the passion, and pain in his voice, it's empowering, especially as a mixed raced boy.
The late great Sam Cooke for me the greatest of them all I saw him in concert at Briin the UK. I moved to London a few months later. Got a paper coming out of the tube station. Sam Cooke shot.i couldn't believe it. What a great loss. I visited my son.Sam Cooke was playing. How come your playing that well I heard him enough growing up. His voice lives on.
This really gets to me, 74 white vet, soldiered with a lot of black buddies, I hope they think of me sometime and our friendship, you’ll give your life for your friends❤️
This song still gives me chills every time I hear it. What a moving vocal performance by the legendary Sam Cooke.
❤❤❤
@@Rajnikanth555 all the time girl ...!
as it should in all of us.......
I love his music!
I love the way he sings this song. This is a timeless soundtrack to many people's lives right now
Agreed
Hoping that a change is gonna come is all that gets me through the day most of the time. I have shared this song many times when it looks like there isn't any hope just to remind us what is possible if we hold on and fight.
Amen!
What a sweeping entrance to a song 👏🏽 timeless and truly wonderful piece of music ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Allan Beaton COYG
audiotable 😜👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
+Allan Beaton Allan this is about our season. Arsenal til I die
James Walker Looking like we got the skills to pay this bills this season.COYG 💪🏽 fingers crossed my friend
anonymous Good for you 😂
Nov 6th 2024 listening to this to keep my spirit uplifted. We got a long road ahead of us but we got this 💪🏾🇺🇲🤍💕 #StayKind #StayEncouraged
Here for the same reason!
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@@doublelunch24
✊️🏳️🌈
One of the first songs I have on my playlist post-election.
💯 Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Ive lost count how many times I've cried listening to this song, so powerful and so sad that it's 2020 and we as a country are STILL dealing with this S**t smh. Lord help us ALL! 😔😔😭
I’m Jesus Christ Name 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽it’s almost time beloved hang in there
sadly never it gonna change it 2020 and nothing chance since . they need racism to stay here to keep people duvided so elite can stay in control of everybody the system in build off division. so many songs came out for a change nothing change yet still in the same mess
Separate yourself from the world. Come out from among them
I’m a white boy from Oregon in my 20s and I just started learning about Sam Cooke and how dirty the music industry did him. I mean this guy has an absolutely amazing voice he needs more love
You already showing it, keep doing it and Sam's legacy will never die out.
I didn't find him til my 30's; be thankful! 💕
I'm a white woman, in my 60's, from the Metro area of D.C. Sam Cooke is REVERED~as one of the ICONS of the music in his day. I've listened to him since I can remember~and still do! He was my husband's favorite artist. Now, my hubby has a front-row seat, in Heaven, (2006) listening to the angelic voice of Mr. Cooke.
The music industry wants to control the artists. Sam Cooke and other artists wanted to start their own lable and that's why he was killed.
@@dawnnojabsmama7328 Not true, Dawn. He was shot and killed by an L.A. motel clerk. He had rented a room with a younger lady who later fled the scene. Looking for the young lady; Mr.Cooke was confronted by the clerk, Ms. Franklin, and a scuffle ensued in which, she killed him. The music industry did not kill him. Did they abuse/take advantage of the artists of that day? Yes. There are many "theories" out there. Peace Out~especially in 2021. :)
This is one of those songs that gets me to the point of crying, no matter how many times I hear it.
me and you both. tears well up ever time.
+Samantha Hines You get it too! it's just very personal to me. it just makes me think of all the struggles in my life but I know a change is going to come
+Samantha Hines I know it is :) working on it right now. I know we don't know eachother but thank you soo much. it's coming for you
+Milli Denney Sad thing is...change will never come. unless you change yourselves.
+Milli Denney It just goes right through you.
This is one of those songs that keeps people alive... god blessed.
Still brings tears. Still mega powerful!!!
This timeless because it's true.
Yesss damn!!!!
I'm sitting here with my eyes burning as I listen … so haunting and Sam Cooke sings it so beautifully. … PEACE to ALL.
I can't listen to it without crying my eyes out.
I listen to this song everyday. I know people on here say this is a civil rights movement song and not any of the other movements and that's true but let me tell u what I use it for. In a short amount of time I went through my uncle having been murdered, grandmother die and my soulmate, which I have two kids with cheat on me with my best friend then leave me. Thought about suicide but I know a change is gonna come and I can carry on. The Song is about pushing through and getting stronger even when you can't see the change over the horizon yet.
courage to you.
Joseph zink stay strong man
Brother have strength not only within yourself, but for the legacy and memory in which will be passed on by your children. A change will come..
Stay strong man
That is exactly right. Keep staying strong, there is always someone there for you, and if it's music like it is for me, then that's perfectly ok.
This song is timeless. No matter the year or the disaster we face it resonates in every situation.
AMEN 🙏🙏
Nicely put
It doesn’t resonate in every situation you would know this if you listened to the lyrics closely
BS!!!!! That song resonates ONLY with the people, of which he is a part of. He wasn't talking about none of you other Co-opting Mfers. Listen to the words
@@whodatis4700 your missing the point it is still timeless. No mater who it speaks to.
Timeless! Eternal! God bless your soul Sam Cooke. ❤🙏
I'm an older white guy and I love this. I was a kid during these times. Alas, the change is still waiting.
drbombay91765 white people were part of the civil rights movement too
So true.
+Steve Martin ... and died for the cause as well, be proud!
drbombay91765 I am an older Japanese guy, I honestly have no idea how I ended up here. I was simply trying to google American music.
Please present verified evidence that "We're all equal", when you do, I will get over it. When did it come true?
Best regards to Fox News, Limbaugh, Breibart, David Duke, and the White House Staff.
This song will make a grown man cry! Still a beautiful song all these decades later! 🙏🏽
i loved the images of struggle they used for the video. absolutely breath-taking. and shows that the song is still so incredibly relevant.
One of the best songs ever by one of the best singers ever. Happy 85th birthday Sam Cooke
+sorana87 u r right.
+sorana87 he's dead..
+sorana87 don't try to be slick everyone can tell that mean stupid '-'
+fire wolf i told somebody estúpido and he got mad i understand i am sorry
sorana87 THE SOUL STIRRERS.
Why has it taken me this long to hear this beautiful, stunning music, itss
if any song on UA-cam has a billion views, it should be this one
Amen!
Indeed,My Very Astute Brother,Indeed👍🏾👍🏾.
And there is 11k thumbs down 🤷♂️ wonder who would dislike this song and video enough to press that?👁️?👁️?
I’ve been faced with a moral dilemma... I honestly really want to like your comment... but it has 69 likes and I think it’d be wrong to ruin that for you
@@papibasic4730 👏🤣👏😂👏😅👏
You can feel the pain in this music. True soul classic.
Absolutely!
One of the best songs of all time. No doubt.
Yes god!!!!!
today October 3 1968; I arrived in Vietnam; how I am alive to post this is an act of God; and I thank my Lord Jesus every day.
*Robby, "thank you" for your service, "thank you" for helping save us and the world from communism and oppression!*
This comment was only a month ago it was still 2018
AMEN.
Thank you for serving. My husband with the 101st over there. He is thankful he survived as well. He says his mission was to stay alive ...Never did find out why we were really there.. But so glad you are here.
Thanks so much Babes...and Welcome home to your hubby....
I remember my father listening to this song many, many times. I was a small child, so i didn't understand that it was a message of freedom, but I do now. I am in my early 60s now. I was raised to look beyond skin color, sex, race, gender identity, sexual preferences, and not to judge people by these. My parents stood by their beliefs all their lives. I now stand by them, too. We are all equal in God's eyes.
Beautifully spoken.❤❤❤❤❤.
Agreed.🙏
SAY IT LOUD ❤
Just watched the Sam Cooke documentary on Netflix. What a pure and loving soul, all he wanted for him and his ppl was EQUALITY... we’re still waiting on that change to come Mr.Cooke!!
So true
True fam.
BackOfTheYards 773 he wanted empowerment
I can't wait to see it.
It's coming. Sooner than we all expect, and it ain't gon look like what we thought it would look like.
58 years without Sam Cooke. God bless Sam, his entire family, and the fans that keep his music alive today. He is the greatest singer to ever live, and forever will be. Never let the music of this powerful, amazing man die out.
Yeah.. he is genius and very great singer I really respect him alot I miss his songs too so amazing and good
This song and, thus, Sam Cooke, will never die. As long as injustice persists -- one of the worst parts human nature, consciously eliminated from some folks but heavily practiced by others -- this song is relevant to the max.
He was only 33… god bless his beautiful soul.
I'm white and I'm crying to,bless the ones the cops killed, family s..I hate it.but Sam Cook is a Great like Marvin Gaye.
Amen Brother
A beautiful song still gives you lifetime chills. Rest in peace the legendary Sam Cooke. 🙏
Agree, pure, pure soul ❤
I've got a lot on my mind. That song left me in tears 😢 lt has a lot of power ✝️ 👍🏻
One of the most beautiful and respected song in history
Facts
Truth
Your from 2020
The greatest song by the greatest vocalist there ever was !
Yeah and still 14k dislikes what in hell 🤷🏾♂️
The Civil Rights anthem. It doesnt get any better. Sam Cooke is the greatest singer this planet earth has ever heard! R.I.P. to the late great Sam Cooke. An icon!!
no he's not ,michael jacson is better
@@ousmaneouedraogo4478 Not as a singer! No chance.
Sam was really good, but I think Nat King Cole was better
I've said this before on other platforms, but IMHO Sam Cooke was right up there with Bobby Hatfield, Michael Jackson, and Aretha for pure vocal talent. A CRIMINALLY underrated singer and completely unappreciated singer nowadays.
One of the most powerful and emotional songs ever made
Smmfh Very Well Said,& so True !🙏🎤💜
this video is corrupting, contaminating this song. Ronald Reagan? Bill Clinton?
This is murder again!
Yoko Ono sings it much better than Sam he wàs a Great Singer but he was no Yoko Ono
You're right. It has and will never lose power.
Very True.
Sam Cooke was one of the greatest singers of all times. And that song a change is going to come had so much meaning to it. Love it.
“ it’s been too hard living, but im afraid to die. Cause i don’t know what’s up there beyond the sky..”
Amen brother... stay blessed this year everyone.
AMEN💕🙏🕯️
That line hits me in the soul like nothing else!!
This surely has to be one of the best songs ever written
surely. and best vocal performance. truly truly.
You never lied. The best Song EVER
@@Miriboheme Are you single y or n
Bring it on Home to Me and A change is gonna come are the two best songs ever. Both penned and sung by the greatest, Sam Cooke.
It's revelant for the times we live today this moment
Today marks 59 years since the tragedy of Sam Cookes death. We’ll never truly know why this great man was murdered, but we will forever be thankful for his contribution to music and society.
A great artist makes a great song, a legend makes a great impact. Sam Cooke is the definition of a legend. May God rest his soul, and may his music be listened to long after we’re gone.
Amen, sometimes I wonder why I’m still here !
I think it's pretty clear why Sam Ccooke "was murdered," unless you ignore the obvious, as well as two corroborating witnesses, both corroborated by polygraph. I think our entire culture needs to stop calling rapists "great men."
Damn he was murdered?
@@BrandonGates-vf5zg Yep, shot in a hotel by a woman who couldn’t explain why, with any conviction, in a court of law.
Amen 🙏🏻💙
Timeless and a beautiful song. Sam Coke’s silky smooth voice, wow!
Sam Cooke is the man! All I can say is powerful! I seen a documentary on Sam Cooke on Netflix must watch!
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
Booker T. Washington
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Amen, Will
A nutshell
u r amazing. much luv 2u. xoxo.... sissy. sassy. or brandice. u may know me by any of these names
👍@@YourCaptivityisOver
This song is pure gold. As a young child I listened to my late father play his Sam Cooke records. I always loved that voice and songs like Wonderful World, Cupid, You Send Me were really beautiful, but when I listened to A Change Is Gonna Come, even as a young lad that song used to hit me in a kind of spiritual way. As I grew a bit older and really understood the meaning of the song it all made sense. I've been listening to it for over 40 years and I believe it's one of the greatest and most important tracks ever recorded.
It's a classic. How do I say this? The song really was a gift to the world.
Inertia is constantly inevitable dissonant change must yield inevitably birthing communi(càtions..) atoning harmonic peace-full co_opperative LOVE--- @___ OM
I completely agree with you. Young people these days don’t know these songs and it makes me sad.
I completely agree with you. Young people these days don’t know these songs and it makes me sad.
@@cooper523 You're right. Sam Cooke had an amazing and beautiful voice. His songs like You Send Me, Wonderful World, Cupid, Chain Gang, A Change Is Gonna Come, Bring It On Home To Me are truly classic song's. It's such a shame that young people don't listen to these beautiful gems. If they did maybe it would influence them in a good way. I know that voice and the songs really hit me even when i was young and they have stayed with me to this day. When i play a Sam Cooke record it just makes me feel better.
I'm a white woman and this song is telling the truth a change is coming. I love Sam Cooke music 🎶
Congratulations on your whiteness, I guess? It definitely is very relevant to the world right now.
I can’t listen to this without crying...
Ditto
Patrick K wat I’m confused
How about trying. Weak ass.
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grass flowerz yes we can
“It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die” kinda hits home
That’s what hit me the hardest. Powerful and so moving.
ambar z same here. 😔😢
Stay strong homie, we’ll get through this one way or another💪🏽🖤
Yes
I cried also once this great song started playing. The great sam cook one of the grearest singers ever,but such a powerful song.
The pain in his voice is what really got me till this day he still is a legend Long Live Sam Cooke🙌
I always say you can hear what he feels in every word 🙏❤️
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So very true so few see both sides of pretty much everything he is with the other music greats geniuses and among those yet to come along but some things just aren't meant to happen in our time but through great suffering and change great things do arise and come to those truly Godly meant to be blessed by their own understanding and I pray that everyone gets to see and accomplish helping all those in a positive way that they want or need to in Jesus great and holy name amen and to everyone near far or wherever you are right now merry Christmas and wether your able to hear or know you are loved and needed
@@shawnafoglesong602 😘🤘, merry Christmas 🎄 & happy, prosperous new year to you too🤘..
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
this song tears me up Everytime.. it just hits right at the right times 🙏🏻
I’m 14,and this song just delivered me.I don’t know how but it just saves my life from a lot of things,Thank you Sam Cooke for this song i hope it changes the 21st century 🥺🤧
A special hug from me to you!🌿
im 14 and this is deep
I'm 9, and me to
Shantie Binger don't give up doing good things will change
try to find good in all
I'm 11 and we're doing ot at school and I cries
Im just a young white guy, but this song really moves me... I just cant imagine how hard this songs hits black people. Wonderful!
It really does hit hard
It does my dude
Your skin corlor don't matter it make everyone sad
@Daniël u cant be that dense. This song was made to represent the struggles of black people is it not obvious?
And I am an old white (sort of) lady and at 72. this is powerful and relevant to anyone that has been marginalized.
I remembering being an child ignorant of the worlds problems and still cried to this and now as an adult overwhelmed with the peoples pain and the worlds troubles I cry again to this song. So beautiful.
Soo true of being overwhelmed with others pain.I find myself wailing frequently knowing that our love has waxed cold.💔
Lets be good to each other.❤❤❤❤❤.
Love, Honor and Respect to Sam Cooke one of the Greatest Black Singers of all times.
One of the greatest singers of all time.
I swear this is the only song i know that will bring me to tears each time i hear it… it’s beauty on another level
i used to listen to this getting ready for work, had to redo my makeup every time 😭
Two songs do that to me, this one and Danny Boy sung by Jackie Wilson.
Same as you, my heart hurt so bad. My tear ran out every time I hear this song from Sam Cook.
Optomisic n Let me show u da way 2 go 😪
The Song is on another level only 39 but loved Sam Cooke since I was a Kid x
Never fails to bring a tear to my eye. The greatest song ever. God bless you Sam.
Amen brother 🙏 I feel the same way
I just love it .it make me cry also
I was just saying the same thing..
Yes sir.
I cry every time I listen to this beautiful song
I’m here listening to this song due to the injustice in America #justiceforfloyd praying God to change America’s heart
A-men!!!
@@algolightly115 that will be the day when 💰 start growing on 🌲 wake up!!
Yeah we all need to listen to the constitution
Are you single y or n
Hey cupcake are you single y or n
Your throat was kissed by GOD, HIMSELF, Mr. Cooke. One of the best singing voices in my humble opinion I have ever heard since my birth, 1976. Music has always been by biggest, #1 Love of my life. However you left this world, Mr. Cooke, I hope to meet you someday, when you sing this song because you wanted to, not because you had to. 😊❤
I am a white man that remembers this song from the beginning. Toooooo Powerfull!! Close all the recording studios for ALL men singers. NO ONE CAN BEAT THIS. God Bless you Sam
i lived through the civil rights movement when this song was extremely popular its a dam shame this nation is still divided because people still dont know how to live like people!!!!!!!!
gearhead0800 WOW, WOW, wow. I LUV it, very well Said.!!!🎵💕💕❤💋
gearhead0800 unneeded that you are white...heart to heart makes it real.
Thank you
“It’s too hard living, but I’m too afraid to die” damn hits hard
Tell many stories, who is kin. Folk?
😢
It really Hits Hard.
Hi there how are you doing today, nice profile you got there...
The devil you know...
The pain in this man’s voice...My soul cries for my ancestors.
@@thomasluby1754 no doubt.a vision has to be seen in order to be live.Amen brother
@@thomasluby1754 this is a song from the 1960s ... why do you think he decided to write, record, and sing this song? He felt the pain of these times, the segregation, the hate, but he saw a better future and you can hear it in this song right here. You’re so ignorant and blind, open your eyes to what history was and how it affects today. I could insult you, but I could never stoop to a racist’s level.
Yes!!!! this song is my life
It gets me EVERY TIME 😭
I agree and funnily enough, as I said to #DrPaulMiller very recently, our music sounds the way it does because it conveys our cry of injustice ... their souls are crying for us.
God showed me a very short vision of Sam Cooke. He was standing on stage , looking directly into my eyes as he sung a song I’d never heard of into his microphone 🎙️It was so surreal and clear. May his soul rest 🙏🏾
I dont care how many people remake this...no one can do this song like Mr. Cooke
Yeah so many have tried but Cooke owned this song. You can feel that he meant every single word he sang and had actually lived it. There's a unique strength and soulfulness in his voice that no other singer has been able to replicate.
Why do people remake classics
If you want to sing it that’s fine
But no one wants to hear your recording of it
@@sbains560 Three Dog Night nailed it. Best cover next to Sam's original.
@@Missjunebugfreak Cory Wells did the song justice as well.
I agree. One of the greatest voices of all time.
I was listening to this in bathroom and I look up into a mirror dead at my own eyes into my soul realizing how much time I've had, spent and wasted and how lucky I am to be standing on my two feet healthy and alive and blessed to be on this world and realizing that I need to stop wasting time and that there might never be a change to come so I'm going to do my best to make that change happen before I leave this buetiful world and I'm only 14 so i was lucky to see this before it was to late
Toxic that was deep! Thank you for sharing
Toxic YOU ARE THE MOTIVATOR.YOU ARE THE MUSTARD SEED THAT MOVES THE MOUNTAIN.THE GERM,IDEA.ITZ MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ATOMIC BOMB.ITZ THE WORD.ABBA,MY AND YOUR FATHER.6 IS HIS UNIVERSAL NUMBER OF LOVE.THATZ THE KEY.GET BUSY.
may you enjoy yourself at your 106Th birthday party!!! you're a great person
You can feel the SOUL, pain and passion in his voice!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Real talk
A change gone come, I hope sooner than later but I it's coming
He was one of the greats!!
Yes!
yes!!!!!
I first heard this when I was a young boy I'm 38 now and even back then I pictured a beautiful scene of America and her people loving and laughing and having a great time united as a country ya know!? Lord help us now !!
I can't think of any other song that stirs this kind of emotion. As you get older your feel it more. I pray Sam is resting in peace. I hope he knows the masterpiece he left us.
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this song didnt hit until i was a grown man. i got tears in my eyes listenin to this shit rn folks
Only one I can think of is the live version of James brown - it’s a man’s world
One of the greatest songs ever
Rolling stone has it at 31 on 500 greatest songs I think that’s a little too far down and most people would probably agree
Yesssss
My boyfriend Brien passed away only 7 months ago at the age of only 32. He use to play this song so much and would sing it with so much passion. Now this song makes me cry. Hold on to the ones you love guys bc once their gone that's it.
So sorry
@@brendabutler4682 thank you so much.
@@jlr2282 bless you xx
My sincere condolences to you. This song is my blood flow, it means justice and fair play. Your boyfriend knew this, inspirational 🌹🌹
@@MsSpock1 he was such an old soul. Thank you
My grandad passed away a month ago, and this was one of the songs we’ve played at his funeral. Sam cooke was his favorite artist and we’ve always listened to him when dropping me off and picking me up from elementary school. I will always cherish those times.
The history behind this song makes it so much more special sang by Sam Cooke. One love for humanity...peace
I’m 70 years old and this is one of my favorite Sam Cooke songs from the 1960s.
Has it been that long?
I'm 14
@@aronbalkovics6598 hope you have a fantastic life in front od you Aron blessings
@@patbraden4342"it's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die,, my life is hard but fantastic ! Thanks :')
True i am 66
"it's been too hard living, but i'm afraid to die"
too true
Truer lyrics have never been written.
Malcolm X and DR.KING and other died for this change...respect and show the young ones..the way!!!!
_"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."_ ~ *Jimi Hendrix*
Stunning !
Beautiful ❤❤❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Beautiful words by the legend Jimi Hendrix.
So glad you posted that. Thanks. 👍
I pray
Not just a beautiful song, but an important one. Thank you Sam Cooke.
Yes you are.right
The Greatest Song Ever Written, sung by The Greatest Artist To Ever Live on this Earth.
Love this song, but greatest ever written? Maybe to you, which is fine!
Marvin gaye what its going is the greatest in my opinion this probably in my top 10
Ron Lawray absolutely
Wow…what an authentic voice. Today’s singers just don’t have these talented voices. Just amazing and beautiful.