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(14,939 posts)This one is gorgeous too:
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(118,209 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Known among his fans as Thomas Handsome.
Hard Times Come Again No More
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(118,209 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Thanks everyone for sharing versions of this achingly beautiful song. It lifts my spirits.
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(11,833 posts)Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer". Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster
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(11,833 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 19, 2015, 09:25 PM - Edit history (1)
I imagine people with the sheet music gathered in a parlor, singing with loved ones. Remembering those they lost and those less fortunate.
Edited to remove wrong dates. The US Civil war was from 1861-1865.
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(118,209 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Sorry about that.
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(11,833 posts)Hard Times Come Again No More
by Stephen Foster
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count the 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
It's a song a 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
Though we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and gay
They are frail forms a-waiting by our door
Though their voices are silent, their pleading seems to say
Oh, hard times come again no more
It's a sigh that is wafted across the lowly plains
It's a wail that is heard upon the shore
It's a dirge that is murmured across the lonely grave
Oh hard times come again no more