When things go wrong as they sometimes will, 
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, 
When the funds are low and the debts are high, 
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit... 
By all means pray, and don't you quit. 
Success is failure turned inside out, 
God's hidden gift in the clouds of doubt.

You never can tell how close you are, 
It may be near when it seems afar. 
So trust in the Lord 
when you're hardest hit... 
It's when things go wrong 
that you must not quit!