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Hard Times

November 25, 2003
Johnny Cash - Unearthed (Box Set)

Songwriter: Stephen Foster, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor & James Taylor

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
It’s 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

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
There’s a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away
With a worn heart, whose better days are o’er
Though her voice it would be merry, its sighing all the day
Oh, hard times, come again no more

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