Kate MacLeod - The Flowers of Joy

All lyrics clean 3:35
© 1971 Jean Ritchie - Geordie Music Publishing


VERSE 1
There will come a time
When I will gather flowers
Wreath them for your hair
Twine them for your bowers
And they will not then as now
Go to the graveyard mourning
Another hero home
Another friend’s last returning
CHORUS
O when that time will come
And it may come tomorrow
That’s when the flowers of joy
Will equal the flowers of sorrow
VERSE 2
There will come a time
When all your tears down-starting
Mean anger with a lover
Sweet sadness at a parting
And you will not then as now
Be weeping for the pleading
In hungry children’s eyes
For broken bodies bleeding
CHORUS
VERSE 3
There will come a time
When we can walk together
You can take my hand
We’ll laugh and talk together
And we will not then as now
Be fearful of each other
Afraid to claim all people
Everywhere our brothers
CHORUS