Key: G
Introduction: G
G
1. Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
C G D G
while we all sup sorrow with the poor.
G C G
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears,
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oh, hard times come again no more.
G C G
It's the song, a sigh of the weary,
C G Em D
hard times, hard times, come again no more.
G C G
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door,
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oh, hard times, come again no more.
G C G
2. While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
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there are frail forms fainting at the door.
G C G
Though their voices now are silent, their pleading looks still say,
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oh, hard times come again no more.
G C G
3. There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,
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with a worn heart whose better days are o'er.
G C G
Though her voice should be merry, it's singing all the day,
C G D G
oh, hard times come again no more.
G C G
4. It's a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
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it's a wail that is heard upon the shore.
G C G
It's a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave,
C G D G
oh, hard times come again no more.
G C G
It's the song, a sigh of the weary,
C G Em D
hard times, hard times, come again no more.
G C G
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door,
C G D G
oh, hard times, come again no more.
C G D G
Oh, hard times, come again no more.