Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
While we all eat sorrow with the poor
There's a song that'll linger forever in our ears
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 you have lingered around my trailer door
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 still 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 you have lingered around my trailer door
Oh, hard times come again no more