Key: G
Form: Song*
ABC:
X:1 T:Hard Times (Come again no more) M:2/2 L:1/4 K:G z2 G A| B2 B B| B d2 B| A G G3/4 A/4- B| B2 e- d| d2 B B| B3/4 A/4- G A3/2 G/2|\ G4| z2 G A| B2 B B| B d2 B| A G G3/4 A/4- B| B2 e- d| d2 B2| B3/4 A/4- G A3/2 G/2|\ G4| z2 B c| d3 d| d2 ^c d| e4| d4| g2 d2| e- d d2| B/2 B3/2 AG/2-A/2|\ A2 G/2 A3/2| B2 B B| B d2 B| A G G3/4 A/4- B| B2 e- d| d2 B2| B3/4 A/4- G A3/2 G/2|\ G4|
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Sheet Music in PDF: Hard times
YouTube:*
Source (if known): Stephen Foster
Other Tunes in Set:
Region: USA, Southern
*Notes: The YouTube above is played in C major.
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Lyrics:
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 bright 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
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