Hard Times Come Again No More chords by Stephen Foster

Hard Times Come Again No More chords *
Stephen Foster 1854

       D               A        D
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count it's many tears,
G    D       A    D
while we all sup sorrow with the poor
                  A      D
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
G  D        A    D
Oh, hard times come again no more.

D               G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
               E    A
hard times, hard times, come again no more
   D            A       D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
G  D        A    D
Oh, hard times come again no more.

     D             A        D
While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
G     D      A        D
there are frail forms fainting at the door
                   A          D
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say;
G  D        A    D
Oh, hard times come again no more.

D               G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
               E    A
hard times, hard times, come again no more
   D            A       D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
G  D        A    D
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.

D               G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
               E    A
hard times, hard times, come again no more
   D            A       D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
G  D        A    D
Oh, hard times come again no more.

Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave;
Oh, hard times come again no more.

D               G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
               E    A
hard times, hard times, come again no more
   D            A       D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
G  D        A    D
Oh, hard times come again no more.

* Alternate:

Capo II

D = C
A = G
G = F
E = D


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