Hard Times Come Again No More Lyrics - Other Voices, Too (a Trip Back To Bountiful) - Nanci Griffith

(Stephen Collins Foster) 

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears 

While we all tear 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 

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 

There's a pale sorrowed maiden who toils 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 

'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