Hard Times Come Again No More Lyrics

(Stephen Collins Foster)

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 sorrowed 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

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1. Wall Of Death
2. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
3. You Were On My Mind
4. Walk Right Back
5. Canadian Whiskey
6. Desperadoes Waiting For A Train
7. Wings Of A Dove
8. Dress Of Laces
9. Summer Wages
10. He Was A Friend Of Mine
11. Hard Times Come Again No More
12. Wasn't That A Mighty Storm
13. Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
14. Yarrington Town
15. I Still Miss Someone
16. Try The Love
17. The Streets Of Baltimore
18. Darcy Farrow
19. If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)