Hard Times Come Again No More Sheet Music

Song

"Hard Times Come Again No More"
1854 sheet music cover
Song
Published	1854
Songwriter(southward)	Stephen Foster

"Hard Times Come Again No More" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor vocal written by Stephen Foster. It was published in New York past Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28. Well-known and pop in its day,^[i] both in America and Europe,^{[2] [iii]} the song asks the fortunate to consider the plight of the less fortunate and includes one of Foster's favorite images: "a stake drooping maiden".

The first sound recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Manufacturing Visitor (Edison Gilded 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' nutrient was pop in the American Civil War, "Hard Tack Come Again No More".

Lyrics [edit]

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

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

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

At that place's a stake weeping 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! Difficult times come 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 again no more.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

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

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 anthology Shot Through The Centre.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 song "Hush-A-Adieu Hard Times" with an a cappella verse from the song.
• The Due north Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Hard Times.
• Recorded past 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 creative person John Doe recorded a version of the song.
• 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 album At the Ryman.
• By Bob Dylan for his 1992 album Good every bit I Been to You.
• As the penultimate track on the 1992 debut album from The Lost Dogs, Breathtaking Routes.
• Harvey Reid plays his acoustic guitar on his 1994 anthology Chestnuts.
• In Series One (1995) of the "Transatlantic Sessions", the vocal was performed by an ensemble composed of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson and Rod Paterson.^{[four] [ better source needed ]}
• The 1995 moving picture Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.^{[5] [half-dozen] [vii]}
• The 1995 movie The Neon Bible performed by Thomas Hampson.
• Nanci Griffith on her 1998 effort Other Voices As well (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 & piano with Edgar Meyer (bass), James Taylor (vocals) Mark O'Connor (violin or dabble) 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 prepare of out-takes and alternate versions from his American Recordings series.
• Mavis Staples recorded it for the Grammy accolade-winning album Beautiful Dreamer (2004).
• In 2005, the song was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe'southward Elizabethtown, performed by Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film My Blood brother'southward War past Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included it on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Dark.
• Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 anthology Rail to Reel.
• Bruce Springsteen and the E 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 Republic of haiti At present: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon.
• In the Season ii finale of Parenthood by the same proper noun, 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-pop grouping Folkmill.^[9]
• An Iron & Vino performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper telly serial on BBC America.
• Blackness 47, on the 2014 album Concluding Call.
• The 2014 9/11 Memorial commemoration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the vocal on her 2014 live anthology Coming Home.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'Due west Cease has Faith' 2015 album Speechless.^[ten]
• Joel Plaskett'southward 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 song on their 2016 album Death's Dateless Night.
• Culture VI uses the song as the basis for the theme song of the American civilization.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang it on her album Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[eleven]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the second episode of Ken Burns' 2019 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2021 every bit the get-go single of their forthcoming anthology Smoke and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson flavour 3, episode 5.

References [edit]

1. ^ R. J. "The Fields of June". Southern Literary Messenger, vol. XXI, no. viii (August 1855) Richmond, Virginia, p. 503: "Amongst these may be mentioned that lamentable plaintive beautiful tune of Foster'south—'Hard times come once again no more.' Have you heard information technology? What an echo of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Difficult time! difficult times! / Many days you lot have lingered / Around my cabin door, / But hard times come again no more than!"
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 fiber Dearth, that the well-known song 'Hard times, hard time, come over again no more than!' first became familiar to my ears."
3. ^ Hubbard, West. Fifty. (ed.). History of American Music. New York: Irving Squire (1908), p. 80: "Other songs abreast those designated as plantation melodies, just all more or less impregnated with sentiment, now came rapidly from his pen and obtained a wide popularity not only in America but in Europe equally well. Such songs as ...'Hard Times Come up Again No More', ... take become familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Hard Times Come Again No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-xix.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (January 22, 2010). "'Hope For Haiti At present': The telethon'due south 10 best performances". EW.com . Retrieved Oct 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 Heart and Soul". LATimes.com . Retrieved October 20, 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 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-nineteen – via www.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.
• "Difficult Times Come Again No More" at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

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