Hard Times (Version 1, Stephen Foster, chords in C with numbers)
Public domain - full karaoke IMMHA-L394
Credit: Stephen Foster · 1854
Origin: Written by Stephen Foster and published in 1854; public domain. The sheet is copied from page 178 of Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin's 'A Song that Will Linger'; only Foster's 1854 words are reproduced here. Version 1 of 2: printed with handwritten chords in C plus Roman-numeral (I, IV, V) chord marks; 'repeat' and 'Chorus' written in.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_Come_Again_No_More
Lyrics sheet: courtesy of Country Roads Folk Music Camp, Mount Madonna County Park, California (about the camp)
Original scan: from John's songbook (scan to be posted on @IMMHACAL)
Chords as printed on the original song sheet. Chords as handwritten (C, F, G7).
C F C Let us pause in life's pleasures and count the many tears G7 C F Oh, we all accept sorrow with the poor F C There's a song that will linger forever in our ears G7 C Oh hard times come again no more. C F C It's the song that's sad and weary G7 Hard times hard times come again no more C F C Many days you have lingered around my cabin door G7 C Oh hard times come again no more. (repeat) C F C Though we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and gay G7 C They're old frail forms waiting by our door F C Though their voices are silent their pleading seems to say G7 C Oh hard times come again no more. Chorus C F C It's a sigh that is wafted across the lonely way G7 C It's a wail that is heard upon the shore F C It's a dirge that is murmured around the lonely grave G7 C Oh hard times come again no more. Chorus