Tempted and tried 
We're oft made to wonder 
Why could it 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 
By and by

When death has come 
And taken our loved ones 
It's leaving our home 
So lonely and drear
Then do we wonder 
Why others prosper 
Living so wicked 
Year after year
Farther along 
We'll know all about it