Nanci Griffith – Hard Times Come Again No More (Guitar)

Capo 3 Video Lesson
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Stephen Foster 1854 (this version by Nanci Griffith **) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_Come_Again_No_More Capo III D G D G D A D
       D                             G               D
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count it's many tears,

                 A      A7       D
while we all sup sorrow with the poor

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

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

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

                      A        A7     D
there are frail forms fainting at the door

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

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

D                             G   D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,

                              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               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:

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

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

D                             G   D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,

                              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                  D
Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,

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

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

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

D                             G   D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,

                              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. . . .
* Alternates: Capo II D = C A = G A7 = G7 G = F E7 = D7 Open D = A A = E A7 = E7 G = D E7 = B7 ** This is the Nanci Griffith version: Set8