There's a Good Time Coming is a popular poem written by Charles Mackay and set to music by Henry Russell and was one of that composer of popular music's best-known works in the middle of the nineteenth century.
ÃÂ ÃÂ There's a good time coming, boys,
ÃÂ ÃÂ A good time coming;
ÃÂ ÃÂ We may not live to see the day,
ÃÂ ÃÂ But earth shall glisten in the ray
ÃÂ ÃÂ Of the good time coming.
ÃÂ ÃÂ Cannon balls may aid the truth,
ÃÂ ÃÂ But thought's a weapon stronger,
ÃÂ ÃÂ We'll win our battle by its aid.
ÃÂ ÃÂ Wait a little while longer.
ÃÂ ÃÂ CHORUS.
ÃÂ ÃÂ There's a good time coming, boys,
ÃÂ ÃÂ A good time coming;
ÃÂ ÃÂ There's a good time coming, boys,
ÃÂ ÃÂ Wait a little longer.
ÃÂ ÃÂ There's a good time coming, boys,
ÃÂ ÃÂ A good time coming;
ÃÂ ÃÂ War in all men's eyes shall be
ÃÂ ÃÂ A monster of iniquity,
ÃÂ ÃÂ In the good time coming.
ÃÂ ÃÂ Nations shall not quarrel then,
ÃÂ ÃÂ To prove which is the stronger,
ÃÂ ÃÂ Nor slaughter men for glory's sake;
ÃÂ ÃÂ Wait a little longer.
ÃÂ ÃÂ There's a good time, c
ÃÂ ÃÂ There's a good time coming, boys,
ÃÂ ÃÂ A good time coming;
ÃÂ ÃÂ Let us aid it all we can,
ÃÂ ÃÂ Every woman, every man,
ÃÂ ÃÂ The good time coming;
ÃÂ ÃÂ Smallest help, if rightly given,
ÃÂ ÃÂ Makes the impulse stronger;
ÃÂ ÃÂ It will be strong enough one day,
ÃÂ ÃÂ Wait a little longer.
ÃÂ ÃÂ There's a good time, c.
Independent testimony quoted by John Dodds indicates that the song was popular with new immigrants to the United States; it was recorded as being sung on the emigrant ships as they approached New York Harbor.