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Song

"Difficult Times Come Again No More"
1854 canvass music cover
Song
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 equally Foster'south Melodies No. 28. Well-known and popular in its day,^[1] both in America and Europe,^{[2] [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 Company (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, "Hard Tack Come up Over again No More than".

Lyrics [edit]

Let us break in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
At that place's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Hard times come up again no more.

Chorus:
'Tis the vocal, the sigh of the weary,
Difficult Times, difficult times, come once again no more.
Many days you lot have lingered around my cabin door;
Oh! Hard times come again no more than.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music lite and gay,
In that location are delicate forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks volition say
Oh! Hard times come once again no more.
Chorus

At that place's a stake weeping maiden who toils her life away,
With a worn eye whose amend days are o'er:
Though her voice would exist merry, 'tis sighing all the day,
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
Chorus

'Tis a sigh that is wafted beyond the troubled moving ridge,
'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.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

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

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Eye.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 song "Hush-A-Good day Difficult Times" with an a cappella verse from the vocal.
• The North Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Difficult Times.
• Recorded by Irish singer Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected.
• Akiko Yano sings this song on her 1989 album "Welcome Back".
• On Syd Straw's 1989 debut album Surprise, Straw and X frontman and solo artist John Doe recorded a version of the song.
• Past Scottish group The Proclaimers on a 1989 BBC radio session.
• By Kate & Anna McGarrigle on the 1991 Songs of the Civil War collection.
• By Emmylou Harris in her 1992 live album At the Ryman.
• By Bob Dylan for his 1992 album Good as I Been to Yous.
• As the penultimate rail on the 1992 debut album from The Lost Dogs, Breathtaking Routes.
• Harvey Reid plays his acoustic guitar on his 1994 album Chestnuts.
• In Series 1 (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] [ better source needed ]}
• The 1995 flick Georgia, sung past Mare Winningham.^{[5] [6] [vii]}
• The 1995 moving-picture show 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 organization on their 2000 album Sing Sing Sing! ^[8]
• The 2000 Appalachian Journeying, for vocalization & 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 vocal 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 it for the Grammy award-winning album Cute Dreamer (2004).
• Randy VanWarmer recorded this song on his 2005 album Randy VanWarmer Sings Stephen Foster.
• In 2005, the song was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, performed by Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film My Brother's War past Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included it on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Night.
• Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 album Rail to Reel.
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Ring's 2009 Working on a Dream Bout and captured on their 2010-released London Calling: Live in Hyde Park concert video, in the midst of the Great Recession.
• Mary J. Blige and The Roots at the 2010 Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon.
• In the Flavour 2 finale of Parenthood by the same proper name, the vocal was contributed to the soundtrack by Brett Dennen.
• The 2012 Voice of Ages by The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
• The 2012 Eesti Kullafond drove of Estonian folk-popular grouping Folkmill.^[ix]
• An Iron & Wine performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper television receiver series on BBC America.
• Black 47, on the 2014 album Last Call.
• The 2014 9/11 Memorial commemoration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the song on her 2014 live anthology Coming Home.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'West End has Religion' 2015 album Speechless.^[10]
• Joel Plaskett's 2015 anthology The Park Artery 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's Dateless Night.
• Civilization 6 uses the vocal as the basis for the theme vocal of the American civilization.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang information technology on her anthology Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[11]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the 2nd episode of Ken Burns' 2019 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2021 as the first unmarried of their forthcoming album Smoke and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by 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 be mentioned that sad plaintive beautiful melody of Foster'southward—'Hard times come over again no more.' Have you heard it? What an repeat of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Hard time! hard times! / Many days you lot have lingered / Around my motel door, / But hard times come up again no more!"
2. ^ Sandford, Henry, Mrs. The Girls' Reading-Book. London: West. & R. Chambers (1876), p. 201: "It was in a sewing-school in Lancashire, during the latter part of the Cotton wool Famine, that the well-known vocal 'Hard times, difficult time, come over again no more!' first became familiar to my ears."
3. ^ Hubbard, W. L. (ed.). History of American Music. New York: Irving Squire (1908), p. 80: "Other songs abreast those designated as plantation melodies, simply all more than or less impregnated with sentiment, at present came quickly from his pen and obtained a wide popularity not only in America simply in Europe as well. Such songs as ...'Difficult Times Come Again No More than', ... have become familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Hard Times Come Again No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-nineteen.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (January 22, 2010). "'Hope For Haiti Now': The telethon'southward 10 best performances". EW.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (April 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND ACTING, LINGERS LONG ON THE MIND". courant.com . Retrieved Oct 20, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (December 8, 1995). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Eye 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 Over again No More", Edison Male Quartette (Edison Gold Moulded 9120, 1905)—Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
• "Hard Times Come Again No More" at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

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