Hard Times Come Again No More About

Song

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

"Hard Times Come Again No More than" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster. It was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 every bit Foster'due south Melodies No. 28. Well-known and popular in its 24-hour interval,^[1] both in America and Europe,^{[2] [3]} the song asks the fortunate to consider the plight of the less fortunate and includes ane of Foster's 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 almost soldiers' nutrient was popular in the American Civil War, "Difficult Tack Come Once more No More than".

Lyrics [edit]

Let the states 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 over again no more than.

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

While nosotros seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
There are fragile forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks volition say
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
Chorus

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

'Tis a sigh that is wafted beyond the troubled moving ridge,
'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 up Again No More than" has been included in the post-obit:

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Heart.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 song "Hush-A-Bye Hard Times" with an a cappella verse from the vocal.
• The North Carolina ring Ruby Clay Ramblers featured the vocal on their 1981 anthology Difficult Times.
• Recorded by Irish vocalizer Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected.
• Akiko Yano sings this vocal on her 1989 album "Welcome Back".
• On Syd Straw'due south 1989 debut anthology Surprise, Straw and Ten frontman and solo artist 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 Ceremonious State of war collection.
• By Emmylou Harris in her 1992 alive album At the Ryman.
• By Bob Dylan for his 1992 album Adept as I Been to Yous.
• Equally the penultimate track on the 1992 debut anthology 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.^{[4] [ better source needed ]}
• The 1995 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 Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful).
• Ambassadors of Harmony perform an a cappella male chorus barbershop arrangement on their 2000 album Sing Sing Sing! ^[eight]
• The 2000 Appalachian Journey, for voice & piano with Edgar Meyer (bass), James Taylor (vocals) Marker O'Connor (violin or fiddle) 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 set of out-takes and alternate versions from his American Recordings series.
• Mavis Staples recorded it for the Grammy laurels-winning album Beautiful Dreamer (2004).
• Randy VanWarmer recorded this song on his 2005 album Randy VanWarmer Sings Stephen Foster.
• In 2005, the song was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, performed by Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film My Blood brother's War by Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included it on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Night.
• Andru Bemis recorded information technology on his 2006 album Rails to Reel.
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Ring'southward 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 Great Recession.
• Mary J. Blige and The Roots at the 2010 Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Convulsion Relief telethon.
• In the Flavor 2 finale of Parenthood past the same proper name, the song was contributed to the soundtrack by Brett Dennen.
• The 2012 Vocalization of Ages by The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
• The 2012 Eesti Kullafond collection of Estonian folk-pop group Folkmill.^[9]
• An Iron & Vino performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper television series on BBC America.
• Black 47, on the 2014 album Last Phone call.
• The 2014 ix/11 Memorial commemoration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the song on her 2014 live album Coming Habitation.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'West Finish has Faith' 2015 album Speechless.^[10]
• Joel Plaskett'southward 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 song on their 2016 anthology Death'south Dateless Dark.
• Civilization VI uses the song equally the leitmotif of the American civilization.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang information technology on her anthology Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[11]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the 2d episode of Ken Burns' 2019 PBS documentary miniseries, Land Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2021 as the offset single of their forthcoming album Fume and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on pianoforte joined past Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson season 3, episode 5.

References [edit]

1. ^ R. J. "The Fields of June". Southern Literary Messenger, vol. XXI, no. 8 (August 1855) Richmond, Virginia, p. 503: "Amidst these may exist mentioned that sad plaintive beautiful melody of Foster'southward—'Hard times come up again no more.' Have you heard it? What an repeat of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Hard time! hard times! / Many days you have lingered / Effectually my cabin door, / But hard 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-schoolhouse in Lancashire, during the latter part of the Cotton Famine, that the well-known vocal 'Difficult times, hard time, come again no more!' kickoff became familiar to my ears."
3. ^ Hubbard, West. L. (ed.). History of American Music. New York: Irving Squire (1908), p. eighty: "Other songs beside those designated every bit plantation melodies, merely all more than or less impregnated with sentiment, now came rapidly from his pen and obtained a wide popularity not only in America simply in Europe as well. Such songs as ...'Difficult Times Come Again No More', ... take become familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Difficult Times Come Again No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (Jan 22, 2010). "'Promise For Haiti Now': The telethon'southward ten best performances". EW.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (April 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Acting, LINGERS LONG ON THE MIND". courant.com . Retrieved October xx, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (December 8, 1995). "Movie REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Heart and Soul". LATimes.com . Retrieved October xx, 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 Again No More", Edison Male Quartette (Edison Gilt Moulded 9120, 1905)—Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
• "Hard Times Come Again No More than" at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

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