[ti:Hard Times (Version 1, Stephen Foster, chords in C with numbers)]
[ar:Stephen Foster]
[au:Stephen Foster]
[by:IMMHA Lyrics Library IMMHA-L394]

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count the many tears
Oh, we all accept sorrow with the poor
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears
Oh hard times come again no more.

     It's the song that's sad and 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.   (repeat)

Though we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and gay
They're old frail forms waiting by our door
Though their voices are silent their pleading seems to say
Oh hard times come again no more.   Chorus

It's a sigh that is wafted across the lonely way
It's a wail that is heard upon the shore
It's a dirge that is murmured around the lonely grave
Oh hard times come again no more.   Chorus