Hard Times [Come Again No More] 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.

It's a song, a 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.

Though we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and day

There are frail forms waiting by the door

Though their voices are silent, their pleading seems to say

Oh hard times come again no more.

It's a song, a 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.

It's a sigh that has drifted across the lowly plains

It's a wall that is heard upon the shore

It's a dirge that is murmured across the lonely grave

Oh hard times come again no more.

It's a song, a 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.