Hard Times Come Again No More (basic)

Here is a janky beginner version that leaves room for a lot of flex. I
determined these tabs with a singer/sing-a-long in mind — let the
voice hit all the right notes, your harp can be the rough harmony in
the background. I think if you play this tab with style and heart, it
can become really beautiful.

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Let us pause in life’s plea-sures and count its ma-ny tears,
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While we all sup sor-row with the poor;
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There’s a song that will lin-ger for-ev-er in our ears;
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Oh Hard times come a-gain no more.

Chorus:

(45)(-4-5) (56) (56) (56) (-4-5) (56) (-5-6) (56)
Tis the song, the sigh of the wea- ry,
(-5-6) (56) (-5-6) (56) (45) (45) (34) (-3-4) (34)
Hard Times, hard ti- imes, come a- gain no more
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Ma-ny days you have ling-ered a-round my cab-in door;
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Oh hard times come a-gain no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music to light the way,
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)

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)

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.
(Chorus)