Happy Thanksgiving, DU. Thank you for the learning, laughing and loving. Peace.

[ancianita]

1.
Let us pause in life's pleasures to 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.

2.
While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
There are frail forms waiting by the door;
Though their voices are silent, their haunting looks will say
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
Chorus

3.
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

4.
'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.

Stephen Foster, 1855

[gay texan]

1. Much love and peace n/t

[tomp]

2. super string section...

...with Mark O'Connor on violin and Edgar Meyer on double bass.

[LiberalLoner]

3. Happy Thanksgiving to you and all of DU!

An island of sanity in a nation of crazy....