let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tearswhile we all sup sorrow with the poorthere’s a song that will linger forever in our earsoh, hard times come again no more’tis a song⦠a sigh of the wearyhard times⦠hard times come again no moremany days you have lingered around my cabin dooroh⦠hard times come again no morewhile we seek mirth and beautyand music light and gaythere are frail ones fainting at the doorthough their voices are silenttheir pleading looks will sayoh, hard times come again no more’tis a song⦠a sigh of the wearyhard times… hard times come again no moremany days you have lingered around my cabin dooroh, 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 graveoh, hard times come again no more’tis a songâ¦a sigh of the wearyhard times⦠hard times come again no moremany days you have lingered around my cabin dooroh, hard times come again no moreoh, hard times come again no more