HARD TIMES
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Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
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While we all sup sorrow with the poor

There's a song that will linger forever in our ears
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Oh, hard times, come again no more.


'Tis the song, the sign of the weary
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Hard times, hard times, come again no more

Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door
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Oh hard times, come again no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay
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There are frail forms fainting at the door

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 sign of the weary
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Hard times, hard times, come again no more
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Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door

Oh hard times, come again no more.

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

With a worn heart, whose better days are o'er

Though her voice it 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 sign of the weary
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Hard times, hard times, come again no more

Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door
F                     C
Oh hard times, come again no more.

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'Tis the song, the sign of the weary
F            C
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
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Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door
F                C
Oh hard times, come again no more