Misc Traditional – Hard Times Come Again No More (Guitar)

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       D                              G                D
Let us pause in life's pleasures, and count it's many tears,

          D       A       A7      D
while we all sup, sorrow with the poor.

          D                        G            D
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears,

G    D    G    A             D
oh, hard times come again no more.
Chorus:
        D                     G   D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,

 D                      E7            A     A7
hard times, hard times, come again no more.

      D                       G              D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door,

G   D                A       D
oh, hard times come again no more.

         D                                       G
While we seek mirth and beauty, and music light and gay,

       D           A7             D
their frail forms fainting at the door.

              D                        G
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say,

D    G   D      A             D
oh, hard times come again no more.
Chorus:
        D                     G   D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,

 D                      E7            A     A7
hard times, hard times, come again no more.

      D                       G              D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door,

G   D                A       D
oh, hard times come again no more.
Instrumental: D G D G D A D
          D                      G               D
There's a pale sorrow maiden who toils her life away,

        A                 A7            D
with a worn heart whose better days are o'er.

           D                          G
Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,

D   G      D   A             D
oh, hard times come again no more.
Chorus:
        D                     G   D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,

 D                      E7            A     A7
hard times, hard times, come again no more.

      D                       G              D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door,

G   D                A       D
oh, hard times come again no more.
D G D G D A D
      D                             G
Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,

      D             A     A7      D
tis a wail that is heard upon the shore.

      G                        D
Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave;

D    G    D     A             D
Oh, hard times come again no more.
Chorus:
        D                     G   D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,

 D                      E7            A     A7
hard times, hard times, come again no more.

      D                       G              D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door,

G   D                A       D
oh, hard times come again no more.
D G D G D A D
G   D          A             D
Oh, hard times come again no more.
D G D G D A D
G   D          A             D
Oh, hard times come again no more. . . .