Hard Times Come Again No More Mavis Staples Words and music by Stephen Collins Foster 1854 Traditional arrangement by Mavis Staples © 2004 Staples Music, BMI Mavis Staples appears courtesy of Alligator Records Produced by Steve Fishell Recorded and mixed by Dave Sinko at the Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN Assistant engineer: Patrick Granado Mavis Staples:vocals Matt Rollings: piano Steve Fishell: acoustic Hawaiian guitar Buddy Miller: tremolo baritone guitar Yvonne Staples: good vibes 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