Kate and Anna McGarrigle with Rufus Wainwright - Better Times Are Coming

Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Sound the news from the din of battle booming

Tell the people far and wide that better times are coming.

There are voices of hope that are borne on the air

And our land will be freed from its clouds of despair

For brave men and true men to battle have gone

And good times, good times are now coming on.

General Lyon and Baker and Ellsworth now are gone,

But still we have some brave men to lead the soldiers on;

The noise of the battle will soon have died away,

And the darkness now upon us will be turn'd to happy day.

Abram Lincoln has the army and the navy in his hands

While Seward keeps our honor bright abroad in foreign lands

And Stanton is a man, who is sturdy as a rock

With brave men to back him up and stand the battle's shock.

Now McClellan is a leader and we'll let him take away

For a man in his position, he should surely have his way

Our nation's honor'd Scott, he has trusted to his might

Your faith in McClellan put for we are sure he's right.

      The McGarrigles, I miss them in these Trump times.  The song was written by Stephen Foster in 1862.  Although it warms and cheers the heart with hope in a dark time, the song itself was a bit untimely as it was written only 1 year into the civil war.