diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 6f69f030f0..8548d71d94 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 2.1.12
+ * (cqlsh) Print column names before COPY operation (CASSANDRA-8935)
  * Add Native-Transport-Requests back to tpstats (CASSANDRA-10044)
  * Make paging logic consistent between searcher impls (CASSANDRA-10683)
  * Fix CompressedInputStream for proper cleanup (CASSANDRA-10012)
diff --git a/bin/cqlsh b/bin/cqlsh
index f4bedcdf34..3e830b5373 100755
--- a/bin/cqlsh
+++ b/bin/cqlsh
@@ -1551,6 +1551,8 @@ class Shell(cmd.Cmd):
         cleancopyoptvals = [optval.decode('string-escape') for optval in copyoptvals]
         opts = dict(zip(copyoptnames, cleancopyoptvals))
 
+        print "\nStarting copy of %s.%s with columns %s." % (ks, cf, columns)
+
         timestart = time.time()
 
         direction = parsed.get_binding('dir').upper()