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Hard Times Come Again No More

Text by Stephen Collins Foster Stephen Collins Foster
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Let us pause in life’s plea sures and count its ma ny tears While we
While we seek mirth and beau ty and mus ic light and gay There are
There’s a pale droop ing maid en who toils her life a way With a
’Tis a sigh that is waft ed a cross the trou bled wave, ’Tis a

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all sup sor row with the poor; There’s a song that will lin ger for
frail forms faint ing at the door; Though their voic es are si lent, their
worn heart whose bet ter days are o’er; Though her voice would be mer ry, ’tis
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ev er in our ears; Oh! Hard Times, come a gain no more.
plead ing looks will say Oh! Hard Times, come a gain no more.
sigh ing all the day Oh! Hard Times, come a gain no more.
round the low ly grave, Oh! Hard Times, come a gain no more.

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