Farther Along chords by The Trail Band

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Verse 1
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It was after dark
before we got to the
camping place
where Uncle Sam had a campfire built.
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Everyone was tired.
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Some of us were cross and wet.
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Went to sleep immediately.
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Not until the next morning
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did we see
that the campfire was built on a grave.
No one bothered to move it.
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I have mentioned our growing indifference,
and what we endure each day
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is robbing us of all sentiment.
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It is to be hoped
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that we will not be permanently
changed.
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Helen Carpenter, 1857.
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And that's 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.
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When death has come and
taken our loved ones,
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It leaves our homes so lonely and drear.
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Then do we wonder why others prosper,
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living so wicked year after year.
Farther along we'll know all about it.
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Farther along we'll under
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stand why.
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Cheer up my brother,
live in the sunshine.
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We'll understand it all by an d by.
Faithful till death,
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said our loving minister,
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A few more miles to travel and wait.
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Toils of the road we'll
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then seem as nothing
As we sweep through
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the beautiful gate
Farther along we'll know all about it.
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Farther along we'll understand why.
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Cheer up my brother,
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live in the sunshine.
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We'll understand it, oh, by an d by
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We'll understand it, oh, by and  by you