(We'll understand it all by and by)
Tempted and tried, we're oft' made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long,
When there are others living about us,
Never molested, 'though in the wrong.
Farther along, we'll know all about it;
Farther along we'll understand why.
Cheer up, my brother! Live in the sunshine!
We'll understand it all, bye-and-bye.
When Death has come, and taken our loved ones,
Leaving our homes so lonely and drear,
Then do we wonder how others prosper,
Living so wicked, year after year.
Farther along, we'll know all about it;
Farther along we'll understand why.
Cheer up, my brother! Live in the sunshine!
We'll understand it all, bye-and-bye.