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<b>Title:</b> <i>Hard Times Come Again No More</i> <br> | <b>Title:</b> <i>Hard Times Come Again No More</i> <br> | ||
{{Composer|Stephen Foster}} | {{Composer|Stephen Foster}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Stephen Foster (1826-1864) <br> | {{Lyricist|Stephen Foster}} (1826-1864) <br> | ||
<b>Number of voices:</b> 1v or 5vv <b>Voicing:</b> Soprano Solo with optional SSTB<br> | <b>Number of voices:</b> 1v or 5vv <b>Voicing:</b> Soprano Solo with optional SSTB<br> | ||
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*[http://artsongcentral.com/2007/foster-hard-times-come-again-no-more/ Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song. ] | *[http://artsongcentral.com/2007/foster-hard-times-come-again-no-more/ Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song. ] | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_Come_Again_No_More Wikipedia entry for this song. ] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_Come_Again_No_More Wikipedia entry for this song. ] | ||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== |
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- CPDL #6291: Lilypond.
- Editor: Mutopia (added 2004-01-01). Score information: 3 pages, kbytes Copyright: MutopiaBSD
- Edition notes: - Edition in E Flat Major.
General Information
Title: Hard Times Come Again No More
Composer: Stephen Foster
Lyricist: Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
Number of voices: 1v or 5vv Voicing: Soprano Solo with optional SSTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1854
Description: Source: Foster's Melodies: New York: Horace Waters, No. 481 Broadway - Music ID Number: Mutopia-2003/12/16-371
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
- 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.
- 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 will say
- 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 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.
- Lyrics: Stephen Foster (1826-1864).