Hard Times, Come Again No More - Thomas Hampson

Composed by Stephen Foster

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Music

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• Historic
• American
• popular

[pudercukurs]

can't believe this photographer didn't help the child. just took picture and left.

[xboilermaker]

There is another explanation of this photo in the wikipedia article on Kevin Carter. I hope the version given to the Japanese press by the other journalist is correct.

[xboilermaker]

I also fail to understand why he didn't include the verse beginning "There's a pale drooping maiden". Each artist likes to change something I guess. In Johnny Cash's version He says she is "singing" all the day instead of "sighing". I agree with you that it should be pronounced correctly.

[xboilermaker]

Yes, Thomas Hampson does a superb interpretation of this music, but you are too kind concerning my amateurish attempt to portray what the song means to me, (and many others also judging by the other versions of this song).

[xboilermaker]

Thank you for your comment. I can empathize with these people because as a child, had to walk the railroad tracks to find coal that had fallen from the trains for heat. And we were still cold, with no insulation and paper stuffed between the wall boards where the wind rushed in and daylight showed through. But I consider myself lucky compared to the suffering of so many at this very moment.

[Yzabeaux]

I read this about the journalist Kevin Carter & a few colleagues who claim were simultaneously out there when his Putlizer Prize photo was taken. In some of the excerpts taken from his suicide note he was in serious deep debt with no money. One of his colleagues mention the foregoing on Carter's photo: "João Silva, a Portuguese photojournalist based in South Africa who accompanied Carter to Sudan, gave a different version of events in an interview with Japanese journalist and writer Akio Fujiwa

[BA97000]

Ideal song for this time of austerity we live in. No hard times for our ministers or builders or bankers or developers. Bet they'll have a great Christmas.

[mobilechief]

@xboilermaker I think it is meant to be sung in the fashion it make you fell , is is nice maybe also is yours, thats folk music.

[mobilechief]

@pudercukurs How do know that?

[TheHazeyQ]

I came to your vid having just watched the film 'Neon Bible' which features this song during a very moving scene. HAD to find a recording of it. Thank you for posting with the terrible and terrifying photographs.

[auguritutto]

Very moving photographs. Many thanks for exhibiting. I'm not knowledgeable about thes ephotgraphs can anyone briefly explain when and where exactly they were taken. Appologies for my UK ignorance. Kind regards.

[auguritutto]

Very moving photographs. Many thanks for exhibiting. 

[joeytwosubs]

@pudercukurs He did help him. He chipped in with obama and bought him a Chevy Volt.But he has no placr to plug it in.

[lilibetp]

Beautiful. The Stephen Foster is my favorite Hampson cd, and this song is my favorite.