Thomas Hampson Hard Times Come Again No More

Song

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

"Hard Times Come up Once more No More than" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor song written past Stephen Foster. It was published in New York past 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 starting time sound recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Manufacturing Visitor (Edison Gilt Moulded 9120) in 1905. Information technology has been recorded and performed numerous times since. The song is Roud Folk Song Index #2659.

A satirical version well-nigh soldiers' nutrient was popular in the American Ceremonious War, "Hard Tack Come Over again No More".

Lyrics [edit]

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

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

There's a pale weeping maiden who toils her life away,
With a worn center whose better days are o'er:
Though her phonation would be merry, 'tis sighing all the twenty-four hours,
Oh! Hard 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! Hard times come over again no more.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

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

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Middle.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 song "Hush-A-Goodbye Difficult Times" with an a cappella verse from the song.
• The North Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the vocal on their 1981 anthology Hard Times.
• Recorded past Irish singer Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected.
• Akiko Yano sings this song on her 1989 album "Welcome Dorsum".
• On Syd Straw's 1989 debut anthology Surprise, Straw and X 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 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 lot.
• Every bit the penultimate track on the 1992 debut album from The Lost Dogs, Breathtaking Routes.
• Harvey Reid plays his acoustic guitar on his 1994 album Chestnuts.
• In Series One (1995) of the "Transatlantic Sessions", the song was performed past an ensemble equanimous of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Blackness, Karen Matheson and Rod Paterson.^{[4] [ better source needed ]}
• The 1995 motion picture Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.^{[v] [six] [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 system on their 2000 album Sing Sing Sing! ^[viii]
• The 2000 Appalachian Journey, for voice & pianoforte 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 anthology 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).
• 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 pic 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 Due east Street Band'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 Hope for Republic of haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon.
• In the Season 2 finale of Parenthood by the same proper 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-pop group Folkmill.^[nine]
• An Fe & Vino performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper boob tube series on BBC America.
• Black 47, on the 2022 album Last Call.
• The 2022 9/11 Memorial celebration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the vocal on her 2022 live album Coming Habitation.
• Katy Treharne sings information technology on the Tearfund with 'Due west Finish has Faith' 2022 album Speechless.^[ten]
• Joel Plaskett'south 2022 album The Park Avenue Sobriety Test.
• Annie Moses Ring performed the vocal on their 2022 anthology American Rhapsody.
• Australian artists Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen included the song on their 2022 album Death'due south Dateless Night.
• Civilization VI uses the song as the basis for the theme vocal of the American civilization.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang it on her album Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[11]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the second episode of Ken Burns' 2022 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the vocal in 2022 every bit the first single of their forthcoming album Smoke and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson season 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: "Among these may be mentioned that sad plaintive beautiful tune of Foster'due south—'Hard times come over again no more.' Accept you heard it? What an repeat of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Hard time! difficult times! / Many days you have lingered / Around my motel door, / Simply difficult times come over again no more than!"
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 office of the Cotton fiber Famine, that the well-known vocal 'Difficult times, hard time, come once 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 every bit plantation melodies, merely all more than or less impregnated with sentiment, now came apace from his pen and obtained a wide popularity not only in America but in Europe as well. Such songs as ...'Hard Times Come Again No More than', ... accept go familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Difficult Times Come Once again No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-nineteen.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (Jan 22, 2010). "'Hope For Haiti Now': The telethon's 10 best performances". EW.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (Apr 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Interim, LINGERS LONG ON THE MIND". courant.com . Retrieved Oct twenty, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (December viii, 1995). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Heart and Soul". LATimes.com . Retrieved Oct 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 fourteen 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 than", 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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