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Date: 7/17/00; 8:31:34 PM
From: "Allen Price" <al@squirrelheads.com>
Subject: Greenville Trestle;Hard Times

                         HARD TIMES 

Stephen Foster

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


       I                                             IV   I
     Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
 
V
     Hard Times, hard times, come again no more
                  I                                       IV
I
     Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
                                  V                       I
     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