Let us pause in Life's pleasures
And count its many tears
While we all sup sorrow with the poor
Theres a song that will linger forever in our ears
"Oh hard times,come again no more!"
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Tis 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 are silent,their pleading looks still say:
"Oh hard times,come again no more!"
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Its the sound that is carried across the troubled waves,
Its the wail thats heard upon the shore
Its the dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave:
"Oh hard times,come again no more."
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