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.
Tis the song.
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 painting at the door.
silent their pleading looks will say
Oh, hard times come again no more.
Tis the song of silence.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
O hard times come again no more.
There's a pale drooping maiden Who toils her life away
With a warm heart whose better days are o'er.
to sign all the day.
Oh, hard times come again no more.
Business on the side 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.
Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave.
Tis the wail that is heard upon the shore.
Tis the dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave.
Oh, hard times come again no more.
This is on the sky of the weary.
hard times come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times come again no more.
Oh, hard times come again
