Uploaded July 2014 | Updated September 2026, 23 minutes ago
When I was at summer camp in 1979, we did this musical in Hebrew. The album is one of the very few Broadway musicals that never made it to CD, but I have the record, and I ripped it to mp3 for my own use. There's a short dialogue before the song starts. The musical came out after the Six Day War, but it hasn't aged.
Here are the lyrics, near as I've been able to figure them out. Any corrections will be appreciated.
We'll live to welcome better days
We're going to live to welcome better days
We'll live to welcome better days
We shall live to see
The dawn of better days
They say they're just beyond the hills
Burn the smoke from the blaze
We shall live to see
The dawn of better days
They are rising from the valleys
Pushing down from mountain haze
And those days are filled with spring
And with the laughter joy will bring
And with the love and truth we knew in youth
But forgot with the battle's ring
We'll live to welcome better days
We're going to live to welcome better days
We'll live to welcome better days
The hour's drawing near
When we'll see the better days
Proud as chapters in the Bible
Proud as Solomon's song of praise
A waterfall in innocence
A morning's dawn ablaze
It's a time of calm and quiet
It's a time when spirits raise
And only when we mourn
When we remember how we've been torn
We'll hear the screams of war again
We'll cry for the sons we've borne
We'll hear the cannon roar
And the shrapnel through the door
The battles that grace
These nights and days
And give our heart [???]
We'll live to welcome better days
We're going to live to welcome better days
We'll live to welcome better days
This will be here soon
You can feel it 'round the bend
And when it rules the land
When it takes its place again
When the story's told
When the writer stops his pen
Then we'll look at one another
And we'll thank both God and man
And we'll see through eyes that glow
Of time of suffering and woe
With the thankful smile we'll go back a while
To those days of long ago
We'll live to welcome better days
We're going to live to welcome better days
We'll live to welcome better days
When I was at summer camp in 1979, we did this musical in Hebrew. The album is one of the very few Broadway musicals that never made it to CD, but I have the record, and I ripped it to mp3 for my own use. There's a short dialogue before the song starts. The musical came out after the Six Day War, but it hasn't aged.
Here are the lyrics, near as I've been able to figure them out. Any corrections will be appreciated.
We'll live to welcome better days
We're going to live to welcome better days
We'll live to welcome better days
We shall live to see
The dawn of better days
They say they're just beyond the hills
Burn the smoke from the blaze
We shall live to see
The dawn of better days
They are rising from the valleys
Pushing down from mountain haze
And those days are filled with spring
And with the laughter joy will bring
And with the love and truth we knew in youth
But forgot with the battle's ring
We'll live to welcome better days
We're going to live to welcome better days
We'll live to welcome better days
The hour's drawing near
When we'll see the better days
Proud as chapters in the Bible
Proud as Solomon's song of praise
A waterfall in innocence
A morning's dawn ablaze
It's a time of calm and quiet
It's a time when spirits raise
And only when we mourn
When we remember how we've been torn
We'll hear the screams of war again
We'll cry for the sons we've borne
We'll hear the cannon roar
And the shrapnel through the door
The battles that grace
These nights and days
And give our heart [???]
We'll live to welcome better days
We're going to live to welcome better days
We'll live to welcome better days
This will be here soon
You can feel it 'round the bend
And when it rules the land
When it takes its place again
When the story's told
When the writer stops his pen
Then we'll look at one another
And we'll thank both God and man
And we'll see through eyes that glow
Of time of suffering and woe
With the thankful smile we'll go back a while
To those days of long ago
We'll live to welcome better days
We're going to live to welcome better days
We'll live to welcome better days
