*Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count it's 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.

'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.

'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.

There's a pale sorrowed maiden who toils her life away
with a worn heart whose better days are o'er.
Though her voice would be singing, 'tis sighing all the day,
oh, hard times come again no more.

'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.

Este video forma parte de uno de los siete programas emitidos por la BBC en 1995, titulados “Transatlantic Sessions”, y que desarrollan la relación entre las músicas tradicionales de Escocia e Irlanda con la música americana.

Aquí, las hermanas Kate y Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright -hijo de Kate-, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson y Rod Paterson, interpretan prácticamente a “capella” y con una gran riqueza armónica, el tradicional tema de Stephen Foster, “Hard times come again no more”.