Hard times, come again no more, chromatic

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Let us pause in life’s pleasures

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and count it’s many tears

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While we all sup sorrow with the poor

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There’s a song that will linger

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forever in our ears;

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Oh! Hard times, come again no more.

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‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary

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Hard times, hard times, come again no more.

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Many days you have lingered

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round my cabin door.

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Oh! hard times, come again no more.