Hard Times, Come Again No More - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
Hard Times, Come Again No More 
Let us pause in life's pleasures, and count its mauy 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. Then; 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, drooping maiden, who works her life away, With a worn heart whose better days are o'er; Thongh her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day, Oh, hard times, come again no more.- Chorus. 
'Tis the sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, 'Tis he wail that is heard upon the shore, 'Tis a Urge that is murmured around the lowly grave, Oh, hard times, come again no more. - Chorus.