["Hard Times Come Again No More" by Stephen Foster]
[gentle piano music]
* 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 *
[gentle piano music]
* '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 *
* '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 *
[gentle piano music]