Hard Times (Version 2, Stephen Foster, chords in A)
Public domain - full karaoke IMMHA-L395
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 2 of 2: the same printed page with handwritten chords in A, with a log-cabin drawing.
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 (A, D, E).
A D A Let us pause in life's pleasures and count the many tears E A D Oh, we all accept sorrow with the poor D A There's a song that will linger forever in our ears E A Oh hard times come again no more. A D A It's the song that's sad and weary E Hard times hard times come again no more A D A Many days you have lingered around my cabin door E A Oh hard times come again no more. A D A Though we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and gay E A They're old frail forms waiting by our door D A Though their voices are silent their pleading seems to say E A Oh hard times come again no more. Ahorus A D A It's a sigh that is wafted across the lonely way E A It's a wail that is heard upon the shore D A It's a dirge that is murmured around the lonely grave E A Oh hard times come again no more. Ahorus