January 22, 2010
Mary J. Blige: Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More”
Why hasn’t she made a Gospel album?
Video sync a tad off.
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LYRICS FOLLOW
Stephen Foster’s original lyrics
Let us 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 again no more.
Chorus:
Tis the song, the 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.
While we seek mirth and beauty 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 pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,
With a worn heart whose better days are o’er:
Though her voice would be merry, ’tis sighing all the day,
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 again no more.
In the hands of the church-reared Blige, it became a gospel benediction, paying homage to the version recorded by former Staples Singers member and gospel great Mavis Staples.
