Canción sobre tiempos difíciles y la esperanza de que no vuelvan.
Hard Times Come Again No More (también conocida como "Hard Times") es una canción compuesta por Stephen Foster, publicada en Nueva York por Firth, Pond & Co. en 1854, y que rápidamente se hizo popular tanto en Norteamérica como en Irlanda. La primera grabación se realizó en un cilindro de cera de la compañía Edison (1905), y desde entonces se han hecho innumerables versiones.
En tiempos recientes, se incluyó en el recopilatorio Songs of the Civil War grabado por Kate and Anna McGarrigle. También fue grabado por Bob Dylan en su album Good as I Been to You. Bruce Springsteen lo cantó en los bises de su gira Working on a Dream Tour. También figura en el disco Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, interpretado por Mary J. Blige and The Roots.
"Hard Times Come Again No More," ("Hard Times"), de Stephen Foster
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.
Chorus:
Tis the song, the 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.
2.
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.
Chorus
3.
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.
Chorus
4.
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.
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.
Chorus:
Tis the song, the 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.
2.
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.
Chorus
3.
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.
Chorus
4.
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.
Kate & Anna McGarrigle and friends (Rufus Wainwright - hijo de Kate -, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson, Rod Paterson) en Transatlantic sessions (BBC).
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