Hard Times Come Again No More

from A Gaslight Elegy by Davey Halfbeard

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Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrows with the poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
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.
It’s the song, the sigh of the weary,
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days have you lingered around my cabin door;
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
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, it’s sighing all the day,
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
It’s a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
It’s a wail that is heard upon the shore
It’s a dirge that is murmured from around the lowly grave
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
It’s the song, the sigh of the weary,
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Many days have you lingered around my cabin door;
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
Oh! Hard times come again no more.

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from A Gaslight Elegy, released October 30, 2017

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Davey Halfbeard Orono, Maine

I've seen a thing or two. Hell maybe nine or ten things more. I know what trouble sounds like and it's knocking at your door.

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