Hard Times Lyrics - Mirah

( Stephen Foster ) 

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 

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary 

Hard times, hard times, come again no more 

Many days you have lingered all around my door 

Oh, hard times, come again no more 

While we seek mirth and beauty and music to light the way 

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 

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary 

Hard times, hard times, come again no more 

Many days you have lingered all around my door 

Oh, hard times, come again no more 

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

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

Though her voice it would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day 

Oh, hard times, come again no more 

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary 

Hard times, hard times, come again no more 

Many days you have lingered all around my door 

Oh, hard times, come again no more 

Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, 

Tis a wail that is heard upon our shore 

Tis a dirge that is murmured around those lonely graves 

Oh hard times come again no more. 

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary 

Hard times, hard times, come again no more 

Many days you have lingered all around my door 

Oh, hard times, come again no more