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Hard Times Come Again No More

Stephen C. Foster, 1826-1864
"Hard Times" was first published in 1854
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Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
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 While we all sup sorrow with the poor.
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There's a song that will linger for-ever  in our ears,
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 Oh, hard times come again no more.
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'Tis the song, the sigh of the wea--ry,
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 Hardtimes, hard times, come again no more.
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Many days you have lingered a-round my cabin door,
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 Oh, hard times, come again no more.
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While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
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 There are frail forms fainting at the door.
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Though their voices are silent, their pleading eyes will say,
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 Oh, hard times come a-gain no more.  
Chorus. . . .
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There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life a-way,
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 with a worn heart whose better days are o'er.
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Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,
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 oh, hard times come a-gain no more.  
Chorus. . . .
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'Tis a sigh that is wafted a-cross the troubled wave,
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 'tis a wail that is heard u-pon the shore.
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'Tis a dirge that is murmured a-round the lowly grave,
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 Oh, hard times come a-gain no more.  
Chorus. . . .


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