Hard Cheese Come Again No More

Hard Cheese Come Again No More performed by Mick Dunne at An Goilin Traditional Singers Club on the 13th of November 2010.

This song is a parody of the popular american song "Hard Times Come Again No More" written by Stephen Foster in 1854.

The reference to cheese has to do with the Irish Minister for Agriculture's offer of free cheese to Ireland's poor. The announcement was poorly received by the Irish public and it was reported outside Ireland as the country became "a laughing stock internationally". The incident was at one point famously compared to Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake" comment before the French Revolution.

Lyrics

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all eat cheese with the poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh hard cheese come again no more.

Chorus:
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
Hard cheese, hard cheese, come again no more
Many days you have lingered inside the larder door;
Oh hard cheese come again no more.

While we seek mirth and beauty in dreary times so dull,
There are large forms bursting through the door;
Though their voices are silent, because their mouths are full,
Oh hard cheese come again no more.

(Chorus)

There's a pale green obese nation force fed cheese every day,
With clogged arteries whose better days are o'er:
Though they need a triple by-pass, they can't afford to pay,
Oh hard cheese come again no more.

(Chorus)

There's a smell that is wafting across this troubled land,
It's a wind that is broke upon this shore;
It's a stink that is rising from the gobshites in the Dáil,
Oh hard cheese come again no more.

(Chorus)

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[Malachy69]

Well done Mick From Ambrose and all the family in Rockmarshall! We have NO cheese! Maithú!

[vmoranfox]

Another Classic from the pen of MD!!