Hard Times Stephen Foster Key: F 

1. Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count it’s ma-ny tears, While we all sup sorrow with the poor: There’s a song that will lin-ger forever in our ears, Oh! Hard Times come a-gain no more. 

Chorus: ’Tis the song, the sigh of the wea-ry; "Hard Times, Hard Times come again no more; Many days you have linger’d a-round my cabin door, Oh! Hard Times come a-gain no more. 

2. While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay, There are frail forms faint-ing at the door: Though their voi-ces are silent, their plead-ing looks will say, Oh! Hard Times come a-gain no more. 

3. There’s a pale drooping mai-den who toils her life a-way, With a worn heart whose bet-ter days are o’er: Though her voice would be mer-ry, ’tis sigh-ing all the day, Oh! Hard Times come a-gain no more. 

4. ’Tis a sigh that is waft-ed across the troubled wave, ’Tis a wail that is heard up-on the shore; ’Tis a dirge that is murmured a -round the lone-ly grave, Oh! Hard Times come again no more. 

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