(We'll understand it all by and by)

Tempted and tried will oft' me to wonder

Why it should be thus all the day long

While there are others living about us

Never more missed it, going alone



Farther along we'll know more about it

Farther along we'll understand why

Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine

We'll understand it all by and by



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 more about it

Farther along we'll understand why

Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine

We'll understand it all by and by