Hard Times (Solo Version)

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