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[Verse 1]
       D                             G         A    D
Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears
G        D                    A        D
While we all share the sorrow with the poor
          D                        G    A      D
There’s a song that will linger forever in our ears
G   D                A       D
Oh, hard times come again no more


[Chorus]
         D             C# D    G  D
It’s the song, the sigh of the weary
D    A      D    G      Bm            A
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
     D    D/C#    D/B   D/A   G       A     D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
G   D                A       D
Oh, hard times come again no more


[Verse 2]
         D                         G     A         D
While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay
G         D                    A      D
There are frail forms fainting at the door
             D                        G        A          D
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
G   D                A       D
Oh, hard times come again no more


[Chorus]
         D             C# D    G  D
It’s the song, the sigh of the weary
D    A      D    G      Bm            A
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
     D    D/C#    D/B   D/A   G       A     D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
G   D                A       D
Oh, hard times come again no more


[Verse 3]
         D                    G         A        D
It’s the sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave
G        D                    A      D
It’s the wail that is heard upon the shore
         D                       G         A     D
It’s the dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
G  D                 A       D
Oh hard times, come again no more


[Chorus]
         D             C# D    G  D
It’s the song, the sigh of the weary
D    A      D    G      Bm            A
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
     D    D/C#    D/B   D/A   G       A     D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
G   D                A       D
Oh, hard times come again no more


[Chorus]
         D             C# D    G  D
It’s the song, the sigh of the weary
D    A      D    G      Bm            D
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
     D    D/C#    D/B   D/A   G       A     D
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
G   D                A       D
Oh, hard times come again no more
G   D                A       D
Oh, hard times come again no more
G   D                A       D
Oh, hard times come again no more