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 a song… a 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 light and gay   there are frail ones fainting at the door   though their voices are silent   their pleading looks will say    oh, hard times come again no more      'tis a song… a 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      '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 a song…a 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