Hard Times Come Again No More

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1. The Chieftains

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. always liked that song.

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10. Foster knew it from experience

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. you can tell it is from the heart.

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16. nailed it!

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3. Mavis Staples

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4. James Taylor and Yo-Yo Ma

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17. +1

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5. Johnny Cash

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6. Mary Black

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28. This is my favorite version of this beautiful song.

This one is gorgeous too:

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7. Mary J. Blige

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8. Kate & Anna McGarrigle

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9. Robert Benoit

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12. Kristin Chenoweth

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13. The Isaacs

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14. Edison Quartet

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15. Bruce Springsteen

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18. Thomas Hampson, lyric baritone.

Known among his fans as Thomas Handsome.
Hard Times Come Again No More

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22. He has great voice, and the version sounds authentic!

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19. Irish Tenors

Thanks everyone for sharing versions of this achingly beautiful song. It lifts my spirits.

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24. +

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20. Stephen Foster

Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer". Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote them.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster

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23. Although just about everyone has heard his songs, he had a surprisingly rough life

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25. Yes, written in 1855.

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I imagine people with the sheet music gathered in a parlor, singing with loved ones. Remembering those they lost and those less fortunate.

Edited to remove wrong dates. The US Civil war was from 1861-1865.

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26. Civil war began in 1861

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27. Oh, well that blows my theory right out the window.

Sorry about that.

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21. lyrics

Hard Times Come Again No More
by Stephen Foster

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count the 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

It's a song a 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

Though we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and gay
They are frail forms a-waiting by our door
Though their voices are silent, their pleading seems to say
Oh, hard times come again no more

It's a sigh that is wafted across the lowly plains
It's a wail that is heard upon the shore
It's a dirge that is murmured across the lonely grave
Oh hard times come again no more

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