Hard Times (Come Again No More)

Source Recording Artist: The Nashville Bluegrass Band

Album: The Boys Are Back in Town (1990)

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Song Details

Title: Hard Times (Come Again No More)

Alternate Titles: Hard Times Come Again No More

Songwriter(s):

Stephen Foster

First Release: Edison Male Quartette (1905)

Themes: Struggle

Source Recording Details

Key: G

Time Signature: Boom-Chuck

Tempo (BPM): 84

Track Length: 3:10

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

Other Singer:

Other Singer:

Other Singer:

Guitar:

Mandolin:

Fiddle:

Bass:

Audio/Video Recordings

Hard Times (Come Again No More)

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Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count the many tears
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While we all sup sorrow with the poor
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There’s a song that will linger forever in our ears
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Oh hard times come again no more
 

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It’s a song a sigh of the weary
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Hard times hard times come again no more
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Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
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Oh hard times come again no more
 

Though we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and gay
They are frail forms waiting by our door
Though their voices are silent their pleading seems to say
Oh hard times come again no more

It’s a sigh that is wafted across the lonely wave
It’s a wail that is heard upon the shore
It’s a dirge that is murmured around the lonely grave
Oh hard times come again no more

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