"Hard Times Come Again No More" lyrics - MADELEINE PEYROUX

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

It's 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 may be silent, their pleading faces say
Oh, Hard times come again no more

It's 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

It's a sigh that is wafted across the troubled waves
It's a wail that is heard across the shore
It's a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
Oh, Hard times come again no more

It's 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
Oh, Hard times come again no more