By & By

Don’t waste the days when I’m dead and I’m gone

Wind up the clocks, ring around, carry on

Don’t gather flowers, dry your eyes, call your friends

For all I sang was a start, not an end.

Catch your breath, feel the life in your bones

Enjoy what’s to come, not the things that we’ve done.

Save all your prayers, take the pain and the hurt

And add your chorus to my verse

By and by, by and by

Forget that glorious land above the sky

Don’t you cry, don’t you cry

By and by

Don’t waste the days when I’m dead and I’m gone

Wind up the clocks, ring around, carry on

Don’t gather flowers, dry your eyes, call your friends

For all I sang was a start, not an end.

By and by, by and by

Forget that glorious land above the sky

Don’t you cry, don’t you cry

By and by

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night

Alive as you and me

Says I, “But Joe, you’re ten years dead”

“I never died,” said he.

By and by, by and by

Forget that glorious land above the sky

Don’t you cry, don’t you cry

By and by