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Hard Times Will Come Again No More

Vocal

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

"Hard Times Come up Again No More" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster. It was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28. Well-known and popular in its twenty-four hour period,[1] 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 sound recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Manufacturing Visitor (Edison Aureate Moulded 9120) in 1905. Information technology has been recorded and performed numerous times since. The vocal is Roud Folk Vocal Index #2659.

A satirical version about soldiers' food was popular in the American Civil War, "Hard Tack Come Again No More than".

Lyrics [edit]

Let us pause in life'due south pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
There'south a vocal that volition linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Difficult times come over again no more.

Chorus:
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
Difficult Times, difficult times, come once more no more.
Many days y'all have lingered effectually my motel door;
Oh! Difficult times come again no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty and music lite and gay,
At that place are fragile forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh! Difficult times come over again no more.
Chorus

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

'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled moving ridge,
'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
Oh! Hard times come up again no more.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

"Difficult Times Come Over again No More" has been included in the following:

  • Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Centre.
  • Dolly Parton opens her 1980 song "Hush-A-Goodbye Hard Times" with an a cappella poetry from the song.
  • The North Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Hard Times.
  • Recorded by Irish gaelic vocalist Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected.
  • Akiko Yano sings this vocal on her 1989 album "Welcome Back".
  • On Syd Straw's 1989 debut album Surprise, Harbinger and 10 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 Civil War collection.
  • By Emmylou Harris in her 1992 live album At the Ryman.
  • By Bob Dylan for his 1992 anthology Good as I Been to You.
  • As the penultimate rails on the 1992 debut anthology from The Lost Dogs, Scenic Routes.
  • Harvey Reid plays his audio-visual guitar on his 1994 anthology 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] [ better source needed ]
  • The 1995 picture show Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.[five] [6] [7]
  • The 1995 movie The Neon Bible performed by Thomas Hampson.
  • Nanci Griffith on her 1998 attempt Other Voices Too (A Trip Dorsum 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 phonation & piano 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 album in 2003.
  • Johnny Greenbacks 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 flick My Brother's War past Whitney Hamilton.
  • Matthew Perryman Jones included information technology on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Nighttime.
  • Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 album Track to Reel.
  • Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 2009 Working on a Dream Bout and captured on their 2010-released London Calling: Live 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 Do good for Earthquake Relief telethon.
  • In the Season 2 finale of Parenthood past the same proper noun, the song was contributed to the soundtrack by Brett Dennen.
  • The 2012 Phonation of Ages by The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
  • The 2012 Eesti Kullafond collection of Estonian folk-pop group Folkmill.[9]
  • An Iron & Wine performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper goggle box serial on BBC America.
  • Black 47, on the 2014 anthology Last Phone call.
  • The 2014 nine/11 Memorial commemoration (bagpipes adaption).
  • Kristin Chenoweth performed the vocal on her 2014 alive anthology Coming Home.
  • Katy Treharne sings information technology on the Tearfund with 'West Stop has Faith' 2015 album Speechless.[10]
  • Joel Plaskett's 2015 anthology The Park Avenue Sobriety Test.
  • Annie Moses Ring performed the vocal on their 2015 anthology American Rhapsody.
  • Australian artists Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen included the vocal on their 2016 anthology Death's Dateless Night.
  • Civilization Six uses the song as the leitmotif of the American civilization.
  • Madeleine Peyroux sang information technology on her anthology Secular Hymns (2016).
  • Shuli Natan sang information technology in Hebrew.[11]
  • Mavis Staples' version opens the second episode of Ken Burns' 2019 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.
  • The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2021 as the first single of their forthcoming album Fume and Oakum.
  • Hailee Steinfeld performed on pianoforte 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 deplorable plaintive beautiful tune of Foster'southward—'Hard times come again no more.' Accept you heard information technology? What an echo of sadness in it! 'Tis the vocal the sigh of the weary— / Difficult fourth dimension! difficult times! / Many days you have lingered / Around my motel door, / Simply hard times come up once more 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 part of the Cotton Famine, that the well-known vocal 'Hard times, hard time, come up again no more!' showtime became familiar to my ears."
  3. ^ Hubbard, W. 50. (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 wide popularity not simply in America but in Europe as well. Such songs as ...'Hard Times Come Again No More', ... take become familiar to many nationalities."
  4. ^ "Difficult Times Come Again No More". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19.
  5. ^ Karger, Dave (January 22, 2010). "'Hope For Haiti Now': The telethon'southward ten all-time performances". EW.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
  6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (April 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Interim, LINGERS LONG ON THE MIND". courant.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
  7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (Dec 8, 1995). "Moving picture 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 2021-12-19 – via www.youtube.com.

External links [edit]

  • "Difficult Times Come Again No More", Edison Male person Quartette (Edison Golden Moulded 9120, 1905)—Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
  • "Difficult Times Come Again No More" at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_Come_Again_No_More