Piano Music Hard Times Come Again No More

Song

"Hard Times Come Over 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 song written by Stephen Foster. Information technology was published in New York past Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28. Well-known and pop in its day,^[1] both in America and Europe,^{[ii] [three]} the song asks the fortunate to consider the plight of the less fortunate and includes 1 of Foster'southward favorite images: "a pale drooping maiden".

The offset 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 popular in the American Civil State of war, "Hard Tack Come Once again No More".

Lyrics [edit]

Let the states pause in life'south pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
At that place's a song that volition linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Difficult times come once more no more.

Chorus:
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
Hard Times, hard times, come up once more no more.
Many days yous have lingered effectually my motel door;
Oh! Hard times come once more no more.

While we seek mirth and dazzler 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.
Chorus

There's a stake weeping maiden who toils her life abroad,
With a worn centre whose better days are o'er:
Though her vox would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,
Oh! Hard times come again no more than.
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! Hard times come up once more no more.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

"Difficult Times Come Over again No More than" has been included in the following:

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Center.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 vocal "Hush-A-Bye Hard Times" with an a cappella verse from the song.
• The North Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Difficult Times.
• Recorded by Irish vocaliser Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected.
• Akiko Yano sings this song on her 1989 album "Welcome Back".
• On Syd Straw'due south 1989 debut anthology 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.
• Past 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 as I Been to You.
• As the penultimate track on the 1992 debut album from The Lost Dogs, Breathtaking Routes.
• Harvey Reid plays his audio-visual guitar on his 1994 album Chestnuts.
• In Series One (1995) of the "Transatlantic Sessions", the song was performed by an ensemble equanimous of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson and Rod Paterson.^{[iv] [ ameliorate source needed ]}
• The 1995 movie Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.^{[v] [6] [7]}
• The 1995 pic The Neon Bible performed past Thomas Hampson.
• Nanci Griffith on her 1998 effort Other Voices Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful).
• Ambassadors of Harmony perform an a cappella male person chorus barbershop arrangement on their 2000 anthology Sing Sing Sing! ^[8]
• The 2000 Appalachian Journey, for vocalism & piano with Edgar Meyer (bass), James Taylor (vocals) Mark O'Connor (violin or fiddle) 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 serial.
• Mavis Staples recorded it for the Grammy laurels-winning album Beautiful Dreamer (2004).
• In 2005, the song was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, performed past Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film My Brother'south War by Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included it on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Nighttime.
• Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 album Rail to Reel.
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Ring's 2009 Working on a Dream Tour and captured on their 2010-released London Calling: Alive in Hyde Park concert video, in the midst of the Great Recession.
• Mary J. Blige and The Roots at the 2010 Promise for Haiti At present: A Global Benefit for Convulsion Relief telethon.
• In the Season ii finale of Parenthood by the same proper noun, the song was contributed to the soundtrack past Brett Dennen.
• The 2012 Voice of Ages by The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
• The 2012 Eesti Kullafond drove of Estonian folk-pop grouping Folkmill.^[9]
• An Fe & Vino performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper television series on BBC America.
• Black 47, on the 2014 album Last Telephone call.
• The 2014 9/11 Memorial commemoration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the song on her 2014 alive anthology Coming Home.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'West Finish has Organized religion' 2015 album Speechless.^[ten]
• Joel Plaskett's 2015 album The Park Avenue Sobriety Examination.
• Annie Moses Ring 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.
• Civilization VI uses the song equally the basis for the theme song of the American civilization.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang information technology on her album Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[11]
• 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 as the offset unmarried of their forthcoming album Smoke and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson flavor iii, episode v.

References [edit]

1. ^ R. J. "The Fields of June". Southern Literary Messenger, vol. XXI, no. 8 (Baronial 1855) Richmond, Virginia, p. 503: "Amongst these may exist mentioned that sad plaintive beautiful melody of Foster's—'Hard times come again no more than.' Accept you heard information technology? What an echo of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Difficult time! hard times! / Many days you have lingered / Around my cabin door, / But hard times come again no more!"
2. ^ Sandford, Henry, Mrs. The Girls' Reading-Book. London: Westward. & R. Chambers (1876), p. 201: "It was in a sewing-school in Lancashire, during the latter part of the Cotton Famine, that the well-known song 'Hard times, hard time, come again no more!' commencement became familiar to my ears."
3. ^ Hubbard, Westward. Fifty. (ed.). History of American Music. New York: Irving Squire (1908), p. 80: "Other songs beside those designated every bit plantation melodies, but all more than or less impregnated with sentiment, now came rapidly from his pen and obtained a wide popularity not simply in America but in Europe equally well. Such songs every bit ...'Hard Times Come Again No More', ... have get 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 Now': The telethon's 10 best performances". EW.com . Retrieved October xx, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (Apr 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Interim, LINGERS LONG ON THE Listen". courant.com . Retrieved October twenty, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (December 8, 1995). "Picture REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Heart and Soul". LATimes.com . Retrieved Oct twenty, 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 2021-12-19 – 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 up Once more No More" at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

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