Hard Times (song)

Hard Times is a song by American composer Stephen Foster around 1854.

[edit] The song

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.

While we seek mirth and beauty

And music light 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.

There's a pale drooping maiden

Who toils her life away,

With a worn heart whose better days are o'er:

Though her voice would be merry,

'tis sighing all the day,

Oh hard times come again no more.

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.

Refrain:

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.