"Hard Times Come Again No More"

Hard Times Come Again No More.

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.
Chorus._ '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.
   2.
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
     Chorus.
   3.
There's a pale drooping maiden who works 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.
      Chorus.
   4.
'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.
      Chorus.