Hard times come again no more

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1. Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its 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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'Tis the song, the 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.

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2. While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,

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there are frail forms fainting at the door.

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Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say,

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oh, hard times come again no more.

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'Tis the song, the 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.

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3. There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,

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with a worn heart whose better days are o'er.

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Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,

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oh, hard times come again no more.

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'Tis the song, the 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.

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4. 'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,

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'tis a wail that is heard upon the shore.

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'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave,

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oh, hard times come again no more.

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'Tis the song, the 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.

(Stephen C. Foster)