Watch the video.

Play this on the jukebox and listen to a lot of other versions too.
You can also download all the different musical versions, in the order they went up.

Check Rev. Sure’s website for more info.
Fretless tack-head banjo is by Nara DeMasson, Melbourne, Australia.

From Janis: Rev. Heng Sure and his performance in Mandarin Chinese come to us via Steve Baughman of the Gourd Banjo “take”. Heng Sure finished his MA in Oriental languages at UC Berkeley, and was then ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Chinese Mahayana tradition in 1976, at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. He live-streams lectures on Buddhist texts at “DharmaRealm Live” YouTube channel, has a music album out, and is an extremely interesting fellow! 

BETTER TIMES WILL COME – ENGLISH/MANDARIN

Adapted for Mandarin by Rev. Heng Sure and Cliff Wang (Lifu Wang 王立夫).

Better times, better times will come. 明天，明天會更好，
Better times, better times will come. 明天，明天會更好，
When this world learns to live as one, 世界和諧行大同，
Oh, better times will come. 明天一定會更好。 

When we greet each dawn without fear，面對困難毫不畏懼，
Knowing loved ones soon will be near， 親朋好友不離不棄，
When the winds of war cannot blow any more，刀槍入庫馬放南山，
Oh, better times will come . 明天一定會更好。 

Better times, better times will come. 明天，明天會更好，
When this world learns to live as one, 世界和諧行大同，
Oh, better times will come. 明天一定會更好。

Though we live each day as our last, 生死轉瞬一息之間，
We know someday soon it will pass,  黑暗夜晚變換白天，
We will dance, we will sing in that never-ending spring, 感恩心聲大地回春，
Oh, better times will come.明天一定會更好。

Better times, better times will come. 明天，明天會更好，
Better times, better times will come.  明天，明天會更好，
When this world learns to live as one, 世界和諧行大同，
Oh, better times will come. 明天一定會更好。

When this world learns to live as one, 世界和諧行大同，
Oh, better times will come. 明天一定會更好。

Words & music by Janis Ian; © 2020 Janis Ian. All rights reserved; used by permission.