"Until Then, We'll Have To Muddle Through, Somehow..."

It seems obligatory, now, to remind as many as I can of the original lyric:

 Through the years
 We all will be together
 If the Fates allow.
 Until then, We'll have to muddle through, somehow...




 Depressing, perhaps. But also, a more accurate, meaningful sentiment than the cheerier replacement:

Through the years
We all will be together
 If the Fates allow.
 Hang a shining star upon the highest bough...

Here's the best version I know with the wrong lyric: