Title: Hard Times Come Again No More
Music: Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
Text: Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
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- PDF: Hard Times Come Again No More
- Key: C Major
- Range: C4 – C5
- Note: Solo voice only, converted and transposed from the Mutopia edition below.
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- Transcribed at Mutopia: Hard Times Come Again No More
- Key: PDF available in E♭ Major
- Range: E♭4 – E♭5
- Lilypond source file also available to edit or transpose.
- Note: This is a particularly attractive edition.
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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.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 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.
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