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Sea Green Singers - Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster 1854) - To see an enlarged image, suitable for printing on A4 paper click on the image - the whole song on one page


Hard Times Come Again No More - Stephen Foster 1854

1. Let us pause in lifes pleasures and count its many tears
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Hard Times Come Again No more.

'Tis the song, the cry of the weary;
Hard Times, Hard Times Come Agaîn No More.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
Oh! Hard Times Come Again No More

2. While we seek mïrth and beauty, and music light and gay
There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh! Hard Times Come Again No More

(chorus)
3. Theres a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away
With a worn heart whose better days are o’er;
Though her voice would be merry, ‘tis sighing all the day
Oh! Hard Times Come Again No More

(double chorus)