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"Hard Times Come up Again No More"
1854 canvass music cover
Song
Published	1854
Songwriter(s)	Stephen Foster

"Hard Times Come Again No More" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster. It was published in New York past Firth, Swimming & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28. Well-known and popular in its day,^[ane] 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 kickoff 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 Alphabetize #2659.

A satirical version about soldiers' food was pop in the American Ceremonious War, "Hard Tack Come Again No More".

Lyrics [edit]

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

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

While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
At that place are frail 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 pale weeping maiden who toils her life away,
With a worn center whose better days are o'er:
Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the twenty-four hour period,
Oh! Hard times come up once more no more.
Chorus

'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'Tis a chant that is murmured effectually the lowly grave
Oh! Hard times come once more no more than.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

"Difficult Times Come up Once 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 Difficult Times" with an a cappella verse from the song.
• The N Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the vocal 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 anthology "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 drove.
• By Emmylou Harris in her 1992 live album At the Ryman.
• Past Bob Dylan for his 1992 album Good as I Been to You.
• Equally 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 Series One (1995) of the "Transatlantic Sessions", the song was performed by an ensemble composed of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Blackness, Karen Matheson and Rod Paterson.^{[4] [ ameliorate source needed ]}
• The 1995 movie Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.^{[v] [half dozen] [7]}
• The 1995 film The Neon Bible performed past Thomas Hampson.
• Nanci Griffith on her 1998 attempt 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 Journey, for voice & pianoforte with Edgar Meyer (bass), James Taylor (vocals) Marker O'Connor (violin or dabble) 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 it for the Grammy award-winning album Beautiful Dreamer (2004).
• In 2005, the vocal was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe'southward Elizabethtown, performed past Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 picture My Brother's War by Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included it on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Dark.
• Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 album Rail to Reel.
• Bruce Springsteen and the Eastward Street Band'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 Season 2 finale of Parenthood by the same name, the song was contributed to the soundtrack by Brett Dennen.
• The 2012 Voice of Ages by The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
• The 2012 Eesti Kullafond collection of Estonian folk-popular grouping Folkmill.^[9]
• An Fe & Vino operation featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper tv set series on BBC America.
• Blackness 47, on the 2014 album Final Phone call.
• The 2014 9/11 Memorial commemoration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the vocal on her 2014 live album Coming Abode.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'West Cease has Faith' 2015 anthology Speechless.^[ten]
• Joel Plaskett's 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'south Dateless Nighttime.
• Civilization Six uses the song as the basis for the theme song of the American culture.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang it on her album Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[xi]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the second episode of Ken Burns' 2019 PBS documentary miniseries, State Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2021 as the first unmarried of their forthcoming album Fume and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson flavor iii, episode 5.

References [edit]

1. ^ R. J. "The Fields of June". Southern Literary Messenger, vol. XXI, no. viii (August 1855) Richmond, Virginia, p. 503: "Among these may be mentioned that pitiful plaintive beautiful melody of Foster's—'Hard times come again no more.' Take you lot heard information technology? What an repeat of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Hard fourth dimension! difficult times! / Many days you take lingered / Effectually my motel door, / Simply difficult times come again no more!"
2. ^ Sandford, Henry, Mrs. The Girls' Reading-Book. London: W. & R. Chambers (1876), p. 201: "Information technology was in a sewing-school in Lancashire, during the latter part of the Cotton fiber Famine, that the well-known song 'Hard times, hard fourth dimension, 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 beside those designated equally plantation melodies, but all more than or less impregnated with sentiment, now came rapidly from his pen and obtained a broad popularity not merely in America but in Europe equally well. Such songs as ...'Hard Times Come Once more No More', ... have go familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Hard Times Come up Again No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-xix.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (Jan 22, 2010). "'Hope For Haiti Now': The telethon's ten best performances". EW.com . Retrieved Oct twenty, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (April 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Acting, LINGERS LONG ON THE MIND". courant.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (December eight, 1995). "Moving-picture show REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Centre and Soul". LATimes.com . Retrieved Oct xx, 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 www.youtube.com.

External links [edit]

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

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