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Song

"Difficult Times Come Over again No More"
1854 sheet music cover
Song
Published	1854
Songwriter(s)	Stephen Foster

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

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

A satirical version most soldiers' food was popular in the American Civil State of war, "Hard Tack Come Over again No More".

Lyrics [edit]

Permit us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While nosotros all sup sorrow with the poor;
In that location's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Hard times come once more no more.

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

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 will say
Oh! Difficult times come again no more than.
Chorus

There's a pale weeping maiden who toils her life abroad,
With a worn heart whose ameliorate days are o'er:
Though her voice would exist merry, 'tis sighing all the mean solar day,
Oh! Hard times come up 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! Hard times come again no more.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

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

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Heart.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 vocal "Hush-A-Bye Hard Times" with an a cappella verse from the song.
• The N Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Hard Times.
• Recorded by Irish vocalizer Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected.
• Akiko Yano sings this song on her 1989 album "Welcome Back".
• On Syd Straw'due south 1989 debut album Surprise, Straw and X frontman and solo artist John Doe recorded a version of the vocal.
• By 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 anthology At the Ryman.
• By Bob Dylan for his 1992 album Good every bit I Been to Yous.
• As the penultimate track on the 1992 debut album from The Lost Dogs, Scenic Routes.
• Harvey Reid plays his acoustic guitar on his 1994 album Chestnuts.
• In Serial One (1995) of the "Transatlantic Sessions", the song was performed by an ensemble composed of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson and Rod Paterson.^{[four] [ improve source needed ]}
• The 1995 motion picture Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.^{[5] [6] [7]}
• The 1995 movie The Neon Bible performed by Thomas Hampson.
• Nanci Griffith on her 1998 effort Other Voices As well (A Trip Dorsum to Bountiful).
• Ambassadors of Harmony perform an a cappella male chorus barbershop arrangement on their 2000 album Sing Sing Sing! ^[eight]
• The 2000 Appalachian Journeying, for voice & pianoforte 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 anthology in 2003.
• Johnny Cash on the Redemption Songs disc of the 2003 Unearthed box set up of out-takes and alternate versions from his American Recordings serial.
• Mavis Staples recorded information technology for the Grammy honor-winning album Beautiful Dreamer (2004).
• Randy VanWarmer recorded this vocal on his 2005 album Randy VanWarmer Sings Stephen Foster.
• In 2005, the vocal was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe'southward Elizabethtown, performed by Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film My Blood brother'southward War by Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included it on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Night.
• Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 album 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 Slap-up 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 2 finale of Parenthood by the same name, 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 drove of Estonian folk-pop group Folkmill.^[ix]
• An Iron & Wine performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper tv set series on BBC America.
• Blackness 47, on the 2022 album Last Call.
• The 2022 nine/11 Memorial celebration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the song on her 2022 alive album Coming Home.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'W Cease has Faith' 2022 album Speechless.^[10]
• Joel Plaskett's 2022 album The Park Avenue Sobriety Test.
• Annie Moses Band performed the vocal on their 2022 album American Rhapsody.
• Australian artists Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen included the song on their 2022 anthology Expiry's Dateless Night.
• Civilization Vi uses the song as the leitmotif of the American civilization.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang it on her album Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[11]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the second episode of Ken Burns' 2022 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2022 as the get-go single of their forthcoming album Smoke and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson season iii, episode 5.

References [edit]

1. ^ R. J. "The Fields of June". Southern Literary Messenger, vol. XXI, no. eight (August 1855) Richmond, Virginia, p. 503: "Among these may be mentioned that lamentable plaintive cute melody of Foster's—'Hard times come over again no more.' Accept you heard it? What an echo of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Hard time! hard times! / Many days you have lingered / Around my cabin door, / But hard times come once again no more than!"
2. ^ Sandford, Henry, Mrs. The Girls' Reading-Volume. London: Due west. & R. Chambers (1876), p. 201: "It was in a sewing-school in Lancashire, during the latter part of the Cotton wool Dearth, that the well-known vocal 'Hard times, hard fourth dimension, come again no more!' first became familiar to my ears."
3. ^ Hubbard, West. 50. (ed.). History of American Music. New York: Irving Squire (1908), p. 80: "Other songs abreast those designated as plantation melodies, but all more than or less impregnated with sentiment, now came rapidly from his pen and obtained a wide popularity not simply in America merely in Europe likewise. Such songs every bit ...'Difficult Times Come up Again No More', ... take become familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Hard Times Come up Once more No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-xix.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (January 22, 2010). "'Hope For Haiti Now': The telethon's ten all-time performances". EW.com . Retrieved Oct 20, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (April 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Interim, LINGERS LONG ON THE MIND". courant.com . Retrieved Oct xx, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (Dec 8, 1995). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Middle and Soul". LATimes.com . Retrieved October twenty, 2021.
8. ^ "Sing Sing Sing!". aoh.org. Archived from the original on 16 July 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
9. ^ "Folkmill – Eesti Kullafond". lasering.ee . Retrieved 15 May 2016.
10. ^ "Speechless". amazon.com . Retrieved fourteen May 2016.
11. ^ "זמן חשוך אל תשוב לכאן סטפן פוסטר נוסח עברי אהוד מנור שולי נתן והפונדקאים". Archived from the original on 2021-12-xix – via world wide web.youtube.com.

External links [edit]

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

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