Hard Times Come Again No More - a RHopen and TanteA collaboration

I am very glad that my friend Ron (RHopen) made me learn this beautiful folk song and finally performed it together with me. Ron also made the vid for the song.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rhopen
I intended my tomcat Mabel to appear in the vid too, but he did not want to sit in the basket =^..^= ... but maybe you hear his "meow!" in the end :-)

"Hard Times Come Again No More," sometimes called "Hard Times," is a popular American song written by Stephen C. Foster during 1854. Well-known and popular in its day, both in America and Europe, it was a favorite of both sides in the American Civil War. The first audio recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Company (Edison Gold Moulded 9120) during 1905. It has been recorded numerous times since. (Wikipedia)

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.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• rhopen
• TanteA
• collaboration
• autoharp
• octave mandoline
• american folk song
• recorder
• Stephen Foster

[dusstead]

Great job Anette and Ron, really enjoyed it

i'd only heard Bob Dylans version of this song before,

[TanteA]

@dusstead Hi Brain, sorry that I forgot to answer your comment. I had too less time the last month. I hope you are well.

Nice greetings from Anette

[ImOfTheWoods]

Wow, how delightful - you sound wonderful together, and love the instruments you used, Anette & Ron! I hadn't heard this song before - beautiful, beautiful harmonies!!! I heard Mabel at the end lol. Very well done, my friends - I enjoyed it so much. 8o)

[TanteA]

@ImOfTheWoods Thank you Sylvia very much. I found this old autoharp on a fleamarket.

Nice greetings from Anette

[karlmahlmann]

Very, very cool. I really enjoyed this. Maybe not one of Stephen Foster's greatest hits, but a real jewel. You guys did it right.

[TanteA]

@karlmahlmann Hallo Karl, sorry that I did not answer to your comment. I just forgot... I did not know this song before. Ron said we could try it and I am glad he did.

Nice greetings from Anette

[TanteA]

@acapeles1 Thank you Les very much. Yes there are much more funny sounding versions of this song as you did. But we decided to do the slow version.

Very nice greetings from Anette

[TanteA]

@rhopen Oh Ron, I did not answer a single comment to our collab! Omg! I will take time for it today. Next time you must do it haha.

Have a great day! Your German friend,-

Anette

[TanteA]

@Bidyyy Dankeschön, Ernest und Sarah. Die Autoharp habe ich letzten Sommer auf dem Trödelmarkt entdeckt :-)

Nette Grüße von Anette

[Bidyyy]

Hallo Anette !!!

super gesungen - sehr schön gespielt - tolles Video !!

einfach : SPITZE !!!

liebe Grüsse

ERNEST & SARAH

[rhopen]

We really should have given Mabel a credit on this Anette haha :o) Maybe that is why he meowed at the end? hehe. -Ron

[annahpanna]

love this, it sounds great, enchanting haha :)