Hard Times Come Again No More

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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.

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'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary; Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered acabin door Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

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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.

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'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary; Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered acabin door Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

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There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away, With a worn heart whose better days o'er; Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day; Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

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'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary; Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered acabin door Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

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'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, 'Tis a wail that is heard upon shore; 'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave; Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

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'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary; Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered acabin door Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.