D                             A              Bm
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
G        D              A        D
While we all sup sorrow with the poor.
G         D                        A           Bm
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears:
G  D          E     A       D
Oh hard times come again no more.

[Chorus]
        D                     G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary:
D            G     Bm     E             A7
Hard  Times, hard  times, come again no more.
     D                       A7             Bm
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
G  D          E      A      D
Oh hard times come again no more.


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


[Chorus]
        D                     G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary:
D            G     Bm     E             A7
Hard  Times, hard  times, come again no more.
     D                       A7             Bm
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
G  D          E      A      D
Oh hard times come again no more.


[Verse 3]
          D                        A               Bm
There’s a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,
G      D                       A        D
With a worn heart whose better days are o’er.
G          D                          A               Bm
Though her voice would be merry, ‘tis sighing all the day:
G  D          E     A       D
Oh hard times come again no more.


[Chorus]
        D                     G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary:
D            G     Bm     E             A7
Hard  Times, hard  times, come again no more.
     D                       A7             Bm
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
G  D          E      A      D
Oh hard times come again no more.


[Chorus]
        D                     G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary:
D            G     Bm     E             A7
Hard  Times, hard  times, come again no more.
     D                       A7             Bm
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
G  D          E      A      D
Oh hard times come again no more.


[Final Chorus]
        D                     G  D
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary:
D            G     Bm     E             A7
Hard  Times, hard times, come again no more.
     D                       A              Bm
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
G  D           E      A7       D
Oh hard times, come again no more.
G  D    Bm     E     A       D
Oh hard times, come again no more
G  D    Bm     E     A       D
Oh hard times, come again no more