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Song

"Hard Times Come Again No More"
1854 canvas music cover
Vocal
Published	1854
Songwriter(s)	Stephen Foster

"Hard Times Come Once again No More" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster. It was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 every bit Foster'south Melodies No. 28. Well-known and pop in its twenty-four hour period,^[1] both in America and Europe,^{[two] [3]} the song asks the fortunate to consider the plight of the less fortunate and includes one of Foster's favorite images: "a pale drooping maiden".

The first audio recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Manufacturing Visitor (Edison Aureate Moulded 9120) in 1905. It has been recorded and performed numerous times since. The vocal is Roud Folk Song Index #2659.

A satirical version about soldiers' food was popular in the American Civil War, "Difficult Tack Come Again No More than".

Lyrics [edit]

Let us intermission in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While nosotros all sup sorrow with the poor;
There'southward a vocal that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Difficult times come up again no more.

Chorus:
'Tis the vocal, the sigh of the weary,
Difficult Times, hard times, come over again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my motel door;
Oh! Hard times come over again no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music calorie-free and gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh! Hard times come once more no more than.
Chorus

There's a pale weeping maiden who toils her life away,
With a worn middle whose meliorate days are o'er:
Though her vocalism would be merry, 'tis sighing all the solar day,
Oh! Hard times come up once again no more.
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! Difficult times come up once again no more than.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

"Hard Times Come Again No More" has been included in the following:

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 anthology Shot Through The Center.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 song "Hush-A-Good day Difficult Times" with an a cappella poetry from the song.
• The North Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Hard Times.
• Recorded by Irish singer Mary Black on her 1984 anthology Collected.
• Akiko Yano sings this song on her 1989 anthology "Welcome Back".
• On Syd Straw'southward 1989 debut album Surprise, Straw and X frontman and solo artist John Doe recorded a version of the song.
• By Scottish group The Proclaimers on a 1989 BBC radio session.
• Past Kate & Anna McGarrigle on the 1991 Songs of the Ceremonious State of war collection.
• Past Emmylou Harris in her 1992 alive album At the Ryman.
• Past Bob Dylan for his 1992 anthology Proficient as I Been to You lot.
• Every bit the penultimate rail on the 1992 debut album from The Lost Dogs, Scenic Routes.
• Harvey Reid plays his audio-visual guitar on his 1994 album Chestnuts.
• In Serial I (1995) of the "Transatlantic Sessions", the vocal was performed by an ensemble equanimous of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson and Rod Paterson.^{[4] [ improve source needed ]}
• The 1995 movie Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.^{[5] [half dozen] [7]}
• The 1995 movie The Neon Bible performed by Thomas Hampson.
• Nanci Griffith on her 1998 effort Other Voices Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful).
• Ambassadors of Harmony perform an a cappella male chorus barbershop arrangement on their 2000 album Sing Sing Sing! ^[8]
• The 2000 Appalachian Journeying, for phonation & piano with Edgar Meyer (bass), James Taylor (vocals) Mark O'Connor (violin or fiddle) and Yo-Yo Ma (cello).
• Eastmountainsouth (aka Peter Bradley Adams & Kat Maslich) recorded this song on their eponymous album in 2003.
• Johnny Cash on the Redemption Songs disc of the 2003 Unearthed box set of out-takes and alternate versions from his American Recordings series.
• Mavis Staples recorded information technology for the Grammy award-winning album Beautiful Dreamer (2004).
• In 2005, the vocal was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, performed by Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film My Brother's War by Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included information technology on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Night.
• Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 anthology Runway to Reel.
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 2009 Working on a Dream Tour and captured on their 2010-released London Calling: Live in Hyde Park concert video, in the midst of the Groovy Recession.
• Mary J. Blige and The Roots at the 2010 Hope for Haiti At present: A Global Do good for Convulsion Relief telethon.
• In the Season two finale of Parenthood by the same proper noun, the song was contributed to the soundtrack by Brett Dennen.
• The 2012 Voice of Ages past The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
• The 2012 Eesti Kullafond collection of Estonian folk-pop group Folkmill.^[9]
• An Iron & Vino functioning featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper television series on BBC America.
• Black 47, on the 2014 album Last Phone call.
• The 2014 9/11 Memorial commemoration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the song on her 2014 live album Coming Habitation.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'Westward End has Religion' 2015 album Speechless.^[10]
• Joel Plaskett'due south 2015 album The Park Avenue Sobriety Test.
• Annie Moses Band performed the song on their 2015 album American Rhapsody.
• Australian artists Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen included the vocal on their 2016 album Death'due south Dateless Night.
• Civilization VI uses the vocal every bit the footing for the theme song of the American culture.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang information technology on her album Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[xi]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the 2d episode of Ken Burns' 2019 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the vocal in 2021 every bit the start single of their forthcoming album Smoke and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on pianoforte joined past Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson season 3, episode 5.

References [edit]

1. ^ R. J. "The Fields of June". Southern Literary Messenger, vol. XXI, no. 8 (August 1855) Richmond, Virginia, p. 503: "Among these may exist mentioned that sad plaintive beautiful melody of Foster's—'Hard times come once again no more.' Have yous heard it? What an echo of sadness in information technology! 'Tis the vocal the sigh of the weary— / Difficult time! difficult times! / Many days you have lingered / Effectually my motel door, / Simply hard times come again no more!"
2. ^ Sandford, Henry, Mrs. The Girls' Reading-Book. London: W. & R. Chambers (1876), p. 201: "It was in a sewing-school in Lancashire, during the latter part of the Cotton Famine, that the well-known song 'Difficult times, difficult time, come once more no more!' first became familiar to my ears."
3. ^ Hubbard, W. L. (ed.). History of American Music. New York: Irving Squire (1908), p. lxxx: "Other songs abreast those designated as plantation melodies, merely all more or less impregnated with sentiment, now came quickly from his pen and obtained a wide popularity not but in America merely in Europe too. Such songs every bit ...'Hard Times Come Again No More', ... accept go familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Difficult Times Come Again No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (January 22, 2010). "'Hope For Republic of haiti Now': The telethon's 10 best performances". EW.com . Retrieved Oct twenty, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (April 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Interim, LINGERS LONG ON THE MIND". courant.com . Retrieved October xx, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (December 8, 1995). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Middle and Soul". LATimes.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
8. ^ "Sing Sing Sing!". aoh.org. Archived from the original on xvi July 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
9. ^ "Folkmill – Eesti Kullafond". lasering.ee . Retrieved 15 May 2016.
10. ^ "Speechless". amazon.com . Retrieved 14 May 2016.
11. ^ "זמן חשוך אל תשוב לכאן סטפן פוסטר נוסח עברי אהוד מנור שולי נתן והפונדקאים". Archived from the original on 2021-12-19 – via world wide web.youtube.com.

External links [edit]

• "Hard Times Come Again No More than", Edison Male Quartette (Edison Gold Moulded 9120, 1905)—Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
• "Hard Times Come Once again No More" at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

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