Hard Times Come Again No More....
Let us pause in life's 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.
Chorus: Tis the song,
the sigh of the weary,
Hard Times, hard times,
come again no more
Many days you have lingered
around my cabin door;
Oh hard times come again no more.
While we seek mirth 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) There's 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.
(Chorus)
Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
Oh hard times come again no more. (Chorus)