Released: March 2, 1987
Songwriter: Traditional
Producer: George Massenburg
[Verse 1]
Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long
While there are others living about us
Never molested, though in the wrong
When death has come and taken our loved ones
It leaves a home so lonely and drear
Then do we wonder why others prosper
Living so wicked year after year
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
Faithful 'til death, said our loving master
A few more days to labour and wait
Toils of the road will then seem as nothing
As we sweep through the beautiful gates
[Chorus]
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
Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long
While there are others living about us
Never molested, though in the wrong
When death has come and taken our loved ones
It leaves a home so lonely and drear
Then do we wonder why others prosper
Living so wicked year after year
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
Faithful 'til death, said our loving master
A few more days to labour and wait
Toils of the road will then seem as nothing
As we sweep through the beautiful gates
[Chorus]
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
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Trio (1987)
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris popular songs
- Wildflowers
- The Pain of Loving You
- I Feel the Blues Movin’ In
- Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
- High Sierra
- When We’re Gone, Long Gone
- After The Gold Rush
- Making Plans
- To Know Him Is to Love Him
- Hobo’s Meditation
- Telling Me Lies
- My Dear Companion
- Those Memories of You
- I’ve Had Enough
- Rosewood Casket
- Farther Along
- The Blue Train
- He Rode All the Way to Texas
- You’ll Never Be the Sun
- Feels Like Home
- Lover’s Return