Hard Times Songtext
von Tracy Nelson

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

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


′Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Oh, hard times, come again no more
Many a-day you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times, come again no more

There's a sigh that has wafted across this troubled way
There's a wail that′s heard upon a shore
There′s a dirge that is murmured around this lonely grave
Oh, hard times, come again no more

'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Oh, hard times, come again no more
Many a-day you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh, hard times, come again no more