Hard Times, Come Again No More

M.R.Packham SATB and Piano Stephen Collins Foster

Additional Lyrics M.R.Packham, arr.
Moderato  = 69
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Soprano          
       

  
       
1.Let us pause in life's plea - sures and

Alto          
Moderato  = 69
      
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 


                        
   
                
          
Piano

      


 

       
          
6

  
count its ma - ny tears While we all sup sor - row with the poor.

             


A

    
T   
     
     

   
             
There's a song that will lin - ger for - ev - er in our ears;

B   
Oh!

     
               
    
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     
 
   
            
 
Pno.

  
     

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2 Hard Times, Come Again No More

               
11


S

 
'Tis the song, the sigh of the wear - y; Hard times,

               


 
A

         
              
 
T

           
      
  
Oh! come a - gain no more. 'Tis the song, the sigh of the wear - y; hard times,

B     

  
Hard times, come a - gain no more.

    
                   
  
11

 
             
Pno.

       
       

 
          
             
16

 
come a - gain no more. Man - y days a - round my cab - in door; Oh! Hard times, come a - gain no

A                         

   
T                          

                       
come a - gain no more. you have lin - gered a - round my cab - in door; Oh! Hard times, come a - gain no

  
B
 

       
          
     
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 
  
          
       
Pno.

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  
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Hard Times, Come Again No More 3

            
Freely


20


S

    
more. 2.While we seek mirth and beau - ty and

  
       

A

      
     

  
 

T

 
            
more. 2.While we seek mirth and beau - ty and

B    

        

   
                     
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Freely

 
       
             
Pno.

   
   
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

   
                 
    
25

   
mus - ic, light and gay; There are frail forms faint - ing at the door. Though their voic - es are si - lent, their

          
           
A

       
           
   
  
T

  
         
mus - ic, light and gay; There are frail forms faint - ing at the door. Though their voic - es are si - lent, their

B               

  
     


      
   

25



     
     
Pno.

  

             
4 Hard Times, Come Again No More

              
A tempo


29


S

  
          
plead - ing looks will say; Oh! Hard times, come a - gain no more. 'Tis the song, the sigh of the

             

A

              
T             

                    
plead - ing looks will say; Oh! Hard times, come a - gain no more. 'Tis the song, the sigh of the

B       

    
       
A tempo

        

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 

         
   
Pno.

   


   
                   
33

  
wear - y; Hard times, hard times, come a - gain no more. Man - y days you have lin - gered a -

A                     
        
            
 
T


           
wear - y; Hard times, hard times, come a - gain no more. Man - y days you have lin - gered a -

B            


   
   
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
       
Pno.


    
Hard Times, Come Again No More 5

                
37

   
round my cab-in door; Oh! Hard times,come a-gain no more.

A                 

          
             
3.There’s a
T

            
       
round my cab-in door; Oh! Hard times,come a-gain no more.

B   

     


   
 

                
       

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   


        
        
             
Pno.

    

  


        
   
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
S

   
heart whose bet - ter days are o’er;

  
 
A

 Tho her
  
T                         

          
           
pale droop - ing maid - en who toils her life a - way With a worn heart whose bet - ter days are o’er;

  
 
B


       
   
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     
 
         
Pno.

     


  
       
6 Hard Times, Come Again No More

         
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   
Hard times, come a-gain no more. Hard times, no

A                         


                          
voicewould be mer-ry, ‘tis sigh-ing all the day; Oh! Hardtimes,come a-gain no more. Oh! come no

 
T

      
 
Oh! come a-gain no more. no

B     


        
      
  
Oh! Hard times, come no

       
   
47


         
    
Pno. crescendo

      

          

       
          
Maestoso

            
52


S

    
more. 4.Let us lift you from your sor -row and wipe a -way your tears While we all cir- cle ‘round you and em -

A                           

    
          
more.

              
 more.
T

                    
4.Let us lift you from your sor -row and wipe a -way your tears While we all cir- cle ‘round you and em -

      
 
B

more.


            



 


  





Maestoso


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
     
    
       
Pno.

     
   
    
                  
Hard Times, Come Again No More 7

    
57

    
            
brace. Let this song lin - ger thru years; and cher-ished, full of grace.

A                

                 
ev- er lin - ger as sol - ice thru the years; You are loved and cher-ished, full of grace.

            
  
T


                           
brace. Let this song ev-er lin - ger as sol - ice thru the years; You are loved and cher-ished, full of grace.

B
   
             
             
     
    
57

           
         
  
Pno.

   
     
    

    
           
Tenderly

          

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


  diminuendo
            
        
Pno.

  
ritardando

  

          
        
67



S

   
‘Tis our song, our gift to the wear - y;

   
               
(optional cue)


A

             
         
Will



T

            
‘Tis our song, our gift to the wear - y; Good times, bright times Will

B 

         
     
      
  
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 

   
    
     
Pno.

  
  
8 Hard Times, Come Again No More

             
71


S

 
Feel the sun, Come, leave your cab - in door.

A                 

          
- - gain.

      
sure ly come a

        

T

                 
sure - ly come a - gain. it in - vites you. Come, leave your cab - in door.

   
B
 

 
      
   

   
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      
             
Pno.

      


     
               
74

 Yes!
S


     
Good times Will sure - ly come a - gain.


         
A
   
  

                

 Yes!  Good times
T

         
   
Will sure - ly come a - gain.

B       

 
   

                      


   
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 


 
          
              
Pno.

 
   
3

  


Original Foster Lyrics for the 4th Verse and 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.
'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.