There Will Come a Time - Carmen McRae, Sonny Lester

Found a seed and planted it with sunshine

Planted it with love to make it grow

Watered it and tended it and still it doesn’t bloom

Won’t you come and show me how?

Found a bird who’d fallen from his brothers

Fallen from a nest no longer there

Cared for him and shared for him and still he’s flown away

Oh, won’t you come and show me where?

Where the time slips by, and by and by

We live to love each other

Where the time goes on from song to song

We sing for one another

Where the song goes on from time to time

From sister on to brother

The time will come to sing a song

Called there will come a time

When the people and the music rhyme

Found a child who’d wander from her playmates

Wandered with a sadness in her sigh

Walked with her and talked with her and still she doesn’t smile

Oh, no no no won’t you come and show my why?

Found a feeling floating through a daydream

Floating as if waiting for a friend

Followed it and reached for it and still its there alone

Won’t you come and show me when?

Where the time slips by, and by and by

We live to love each other

Where the time goes on from song to song

We sing for one another

Where the song goes on from time to time

From sister on to brother

The time will come to sing a song

Called there will come a time

When the people and the music rhyme