(intro) GGGG
1. Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
CGDG
while we all sup sorrow with the poor.
GCG
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears,
CGDG
oh, hard times come again no more.
GCG
It's the song, a sigh of the weary,
CGEmD
hard times, hard times, come again no more.
GCG
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door,
CGDG
oh, hard times, come again no more.
GCG
2. While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
CGDG
there are frail forms fainting at the door.
GCG
Though their voices now are silent, their pleading looks still say,
CGDG
oh, hard times come again no more.
GCG
3. There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,
CGDG
with a worn heart whose better days are o'er.
GCG
Though her voice should be merry, it's singing all the day,
CGDG
oh, hard times come again no more.
GCG
4. It's a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
CGDG
it's a wail that is heard upon the shore.
GCG
It's a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave,
CGDG
oh, hard times come again no more.
GCG
It's the song, a sigh of the weary,
CGEmD
hard times, hard times, come again no more.
GCG
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door,
CGDG
oh, hard times, come again no more.
CGDG
Oh, hard times, come again no more.