Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
For we all sorrow with the poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh Hard times come again no more

There's a song 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 bright and gay,
There are frail forms fading at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh hard times come again no more

There's a song 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
Oh hard times come again no more