Hard Times Come Again No More History

Song

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

"Difficult Times Come up Once again No More" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor vocal written past Stephen Foster. It was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 equally Foster's Melodies No. 28. Well-known and popular in its day,^[one] both in America and Europe,^{[2] [3]} the song asks the fortunate to consider the plight of the less fortunate and includes one of Foster's favorite images: "a pale drooping maiden".

The first audio recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Manufacturing Company (Edison Aureate Moulded 9120) in 1905. It has been recorded and performed numerous times since. The song is Roud Folk Vocal Index #2659.

A satirical version about soldiers' nutrient was popular in the American Civil State of war, "Difficult Tack Come 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;
There's a vocal that volition linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Hard times come again no more than.

Chorus:
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
Difficult Times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered effectually my cabin 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 up again no more than.
Chorus

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

'Tis a sigh that is wafted beyond the troubled wave,
'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'Tis a dirge that is murmured effectually the lowly grave
Oh! Difficult times come up again no more.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

"Difficult Times Come Once again No More" has been included in the post-obit:

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Middle.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 song "Hush-A-Bye Hard Times" with an a cappella verse from the vocal.
• The Northward Carolina band Scarlet Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Hard Times.
• Recorded past Irish singer Mary Black on her 1984 anthology Nerveless.
• Akiko Yano sings this vocal on her 1989 album "Welcome Back".
• On Syd Straw'due south 1989 debut album Surprise, Straw and X frontman and solo creative person John Doe recorded a version of the song.
• Past Scottish group The Proclaimers on a 1989 BBC radio session.
• By Kate & Anna McGarrigle on the 1991 Songs of the Civil State of war collection.
• By Emmylou Harris in her 1992 live album At the Ryman.
• By Bob Dylan for his 1992 album Good equally I Been to You.
• Equally the penultimate rail 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 I (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] [ ameliorate source needed ]}
• The 1995 movie Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.^{[v] [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! ^[8]
• The 2000 Appalachian Journey, for voice & pianoforte with Edgar Meyer (bass), James Taylor (vocals) Marking 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 Greenbacks on the Redemption Songs disc of the 2003 Unearthed box gear up of out-takes and alternate versions from his American Recordings serial.
• Mavis Staples recorded it for the Grammy accolade-winning anthology Cute Dreamer (2004).
• In 2005, the vocal was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, performed by Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film My Blood brother'southward 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 East Street Band'southward 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 Haiti Now: A Global Do good for Earthquake Relief telethon.
• In the Season ii finale of Parenthood by the aforementioned proper name, the song was contributed to the soundtrack by Brett Dennen.
• The 2012 Vocalisation of Ages by The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
• The 2012 Eesti Kullafond drove of Estonian folk-pop grouping Folkmill.^[9]
• An Iron & Wine operation featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper idiot box series on BBC America.
• Black 47, on the 2014 album Final Call.
• The 2014 ix/eleven Memorial commemoration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the vocal on her 2014 live album Coming Domicile.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'West End has Faith' 2015 anthology Speechless.^[10]
• Joel Plaskett's 2015 album The Park Avenue Sobriety Examination.
• Annie Moses Band performed the vocal on their 2015 album American Rhapsody.
• Australian artists Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen included the song on their 2016 album Death'south Dateless Nighttime.
• Civilization VI uses the vocal as the basis for the theme song of the American culture.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang it on her album Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang information technology in Hebrew.^[11]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the 2d episode of Ken Burns' 2019 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the vocal in 2021 as the showtime single of their forthcoming album Smoke and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson season 3, episode v.

References [edit]

1. ^ R. J. "The Fields of June". Southern Literary Messenger, vol. XXI, no. 8 (August 1855) Richmond, Virginia, p. 503: "Amid these may be mentioned that deplorable plaintive beautiful melody of Foster's—'Difficult times come once again no more.' Accept you lot heard information technology? What an echo of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Hard fourth dimension! difficult times! / Many days yous have lingered / Effectually my cabin door, / Just difficult times come again no more!"
2. ^ Sandford, Henry, Mrs. The Girls' Reading-Book. London: W. & R. Chambers (1876), p. 201: "It was in a sewing-schoolhouse in Lancashire, during the latter function of the Cotton Famine, that the well-known vocal 'Hard times, hard time, come again no more!' starting time became familiar to my ears."
3. ^ Hubbard, Due west. L. (ed.). History of American Music. New York: Irving Squire (1908), p. 80: "Other songs beside those designated as plantation melodies, but all more or less impregnated with sentiment, now came quickly from his pen and obtained a broad popularity not only in America but in Europe as well. Such songs as ...'Difficult Times Come Again No More', ... have become familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Hard Times Come Once more No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (January 22, 2010). "'Hope For Republic of haiti Now': The telethon'south 10 best performances". EW.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (Apr 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Acting, LINGERS LONG ON THE Heed". courant.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (December 8, 1995). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Centre 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]

• "Difficult Times Come Over again No More", Edison Male Quartette (Edison Gold Moulded 9120, 1905)—Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
• "Difficult Times Come Once more No More" at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

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