[ti: Hard Times Come Again No More (with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor)]
[ar: James Taylor]
[00:08.000]Let us pause in life`s pleasures and count its many tears
[00:14.500]While we all sup sorrow with the poor.
[00:21.000]There`s a song that will linger forever in our ears,
[00:28.000]Oh, hard times, come again no more.
[00:34.000]`Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
[00:42.500]Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
[00:50.500]Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
[00:57.000]Oh, hard times, come again no more.
[01:04.000]While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay.
[01:10.000]There are frail forms fainting by the door.
[01:17.500]Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say,
[01:24.500]Oh, hard times, come again no more.
[02:26.500]'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
[02:33.000]'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore.
[02:40.500]'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave.
[02:47.500]Oh, hard times, come again no more.
[02:54.500]`Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
[03:01.500]Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
[03:09.500]Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
[03:16.500]Oh, hard times, come again no more.
[03:23.500]Oh, hard times.