On a related note, the version of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Betty Lavette and Jon Bon Jovi was fine, too. Betty Lavette is a great soul singer, pretty much forgotten until her career revived a couple of years ago. Interesting that she, too, sung the "forgotten" verse of the song - the one that goes "I go to a movie/Or I go downtown/There's always someone tells me/Don't hang around". When Sam Cooke wrote and recorded the song in about 1964 his record company took that verse out as it was too militant for a pop 45. He had been inspired to write it after hearing Dylan's "Blowing In The Wind".

So, two great songs that have had their words publicly restored.