[00:01.06]Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears
[00:26.80]While we all sup sorrow with the poor
[00:33.02]There’s a song it will linger forever in our ears
[00:44.71]Oh! Hard Times come again no more
[00:51.22]CHORUS
[00:54.29]It’s the song, and the sigh of the weary
[01:02.95]Oh! hard times, Hard Times, come again no more
[01:12.38]Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door
[01:23.28]Oh! Hard Times, come again no more
[01:30.24]While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay
[01:45.93]There are frail forms fainting at the door
[01:53.44]Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
[02:03.78]Oh! Hard Times, come again no more
[02:10.54]CHORUS
[02:13.40]It’s the song, and the sigh of the weary
[02:21.49]Oh! hard times, Hard Times, come again no more
[02:31.26]Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door
[02:42.11]Oh! Hard Times, come again no more
[02:49.85]There’s a pale drooping maiden who foils her life away
[03:35.13]With the worn out heart whose better days are o’er
[03:42.78]Though her voice would be merry, its sighing all the day
[03:52.44]Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.
[03:59.58]CHORUS
[04:01.82]It’s the song, and the sigh of the weary
[04:09.71]Oh! hard times, Hard Times, come again no more
[04:19.90]Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door
[04:29.85]Oh! Hard Times, come again no more
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