Let us pause in life's pleasures and count our many tears
as 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.
'Tis the song, the sign of the weary
Oh Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Oh hard times, come again no more.
There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away
With a worn heart, whose better days are o'er
Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day
Oh, hard times, come again no more.
'Tis the song, the sign 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
Tis a sigh that has wafted across this troubled way
Tis a wail that's heard upon a shore
Tis a dirge that is murmured across this lowly grave
Oh hard times come again no more.
Oh, hard times, come again no more.
'Tis the song, the sign of the weary
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door
Oh hard times, come again no more.
Oh hard times come again no more.