There's a Good Time Coming was 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.
There's a good time coming, boys, a good time coming:
We may not live to see the day, but Earth shall glisten in the ray of the good time coming:
Cannonballs may aid the truth, But thought's a weapon stronger:
We'll win our battle with its aid;- Wait a little longer.
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 Harbour.
The pen shall supersede the sword,
And right not might, shall be the lord
In the good time coming;
Worth, not truth, shall rule mankind,
And be acknowledged stronger...
Famous quotes containing the words there a, time and/or coming:
“Don’t say, don’t say there is no water.
That fountain is there among its scalloped
green and gray stones,
it is still there and always there....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“At the time there was a claustral monk named Frere Jean of the Hashes, who was young, gallant, joyful, good natured, dextrous, bold, adventurous, thoughtful, tall, thin, with a capacious mouth, gifted in the nose, a great dispatcher of hours, quite an accomplisher of masses, a quick doer-in of vigils,—to put it in a nutshell, a true monk if ever there’s been one since this monk of a world first monked out a monk; moreover, a cleric to his very teeth in matters of the breviary.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“The daily arguments over putting away the toys or practicing the piano defeat us so easily. We see them coming yet they frustrate us time and time again. In many cases, we are mothers and fathers who have managed budgets and unruly bosses and done difficult jobs well through sheer tenacity and dogged preparation. So why are we unable to persuade someone three feet tall to step into six inches of water at bathtime?”
—Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)