[1] Let us pause in life's pleasures and [4] count the many [1] tears
[4] While we [1] all sup sorrow [5] with the [1] poor
There's a song that will linger for-[4]-ever in our [1] ears
[4] Oh [1] hard times come [5] again no [1] more

[1] It's a song a sigh of the [4] weary [1]
Hard times [4] hard [1] times come again no [5] more
Many [1] days you have lingered a-[4]-round my cabin [1] door
[4] Oh [1] hard times come [5] again no [1] 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