#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: 1/27/03; 6:37:37 AM >From: Larry Collins <larry@jugmusic.com> Subject: Hard Times Come Again No More, By Emmylou Harris Written by Stephen Foster (published by Firth, Pond & Co., N.Y., 1854) Recorded by Emmylou Harris Nancy Griffith Thomas Hampson Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle The Graham Brothers [D]Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears [G]While we [D]all sup [G]sorrow [A]with the [D]poor: There's a song that will linger forever in our ears; [G]Oh! [D]Hard Times, [G]come a[A]gain no [D]more. {start_of_chorus} [D]'Tis the song, the sigh of the [G]wea___[D]ry; Hard Times, [G]Hard [D]times, [G]come a[A]gain no [E]more: [E7]Many [D]days you have lingered around my cabin door; [G]Oh! [D]Hard Times, [G]come a[A]gain no [D]more. {end_of_chorus} [D]While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay [G]There are [D]frail forms [G]fainting [A]by the [D]door: Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say [G]Oh! [D]Hard Times [G]come a[A]gain no [D]more. [D]There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away [G]With a [D]worn heart whose [G]better [A]days are [D]o'er: Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day [G]Oh! [D]Hard Times [G]come a[A]gain no [D]more. [D]'Tis a sign that is wafted across the troubled wave, [G]'Tis a [D]wail that is [G]heard up[A]on the [D]shore, 'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave [G]Oh! [D]Hard Times, [G]come a[A]gain no [D]more.