Hard Times Come Again No More

Stephen 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

Trivia about the song Hard Times Come Again No More by Nanci Griffith

When was the song “Hard Times Come Again No More” released by Nanci Griffith?
The song Hard Times Come Again No More was released in 1998, on the album “Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful)”.
Who composed the song “Hard Times Come Again No More” by Nanci Griffith?
The song “Hard Times Come Again No More” by Nanci Griffith was composed by Stephen Foster.

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