There’s a Good Time Coming

(published by Peters & Field, Cincinnati, 1846)

1.	5.
There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming, A good time coming: We may not live to see the day, But earth shall glisten in the ray. Of the good time coming Cannon balls may aid the truth, But thought’s a weapon stronger; We’ll win our battle by its aid; Wait a little longer.	There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming, A good time coming; And a poor mans family, Shall not be his misery, In the good time coming; Ev’ry child shall be a help, To make his right arm stronger; The happier he, the more he has; Wait a little longer.

2.	6.
There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming, A good time coming; The pen shall supersed the sword, And right, not might, shall be the lord, In the good time coming; Worth, not birth, shall rule mankind, And be acknowledg’d stronger; The proper impulse has been giv’n; Wait a little longer.	There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming, A good time coming; Little children shall not tiol Under, or above the soil. In the good time coming. But shall play in healthful fields, Till limbs and minds grow stronger; And ev’ry one shall read and write; Wait a little longer.

3.	7.
There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming, A good time coming; War in all mens eyes shall be A monster of iniquity. In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaugther men for glory’s sake; Wait a little longer.	There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming, A good time coming; The people shall be temperate, And shall love instead of hate, In the good time coming. They shall use, and not abuse, And make all virtue stronger; The reformation has begun; Wait a little longer.

4.	8.
There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming, A good time coming: Shameful rivalries of creed Shall not make the martyr blood, In the good time coming. Religion shall be shorn of pride, And flourish all the stronger; And Charity shall trim her lamp; Wait a little longer.	There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming, A good time coming; Let us aid it all we can, Ev’ry woman ev’ry man, The good time coming. Smallest helps, if rightly giv’n, Make the impulse stronger; ’twill be strong enough one day; Wait a little longer.