Stephen Collins Foster - Hard times come again no more - текст песни (слова)

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears, 
While we all sup sorrow with the poor; 
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears; 
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. 

 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 hard times come again no more. 

 There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away, 
With a worn heart whose better days are o'er: 
Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day, 
Oh hard times come again no more. 

 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.