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Description and Notes
written and composed by Stephen Collins Foster.
For voice and piano, with additional chorus refrain.
Caption title: Hard times come again no more.
Reprint. Originally published: [New York] : Firth, Pond & Co., 1854 [i.e. 1855]
Wm. A. Pond & Co. was at this address from 1863 until 1877. Cf. Early American sheet music / Dichter and Shapiro.
Verses 3-4 printed as text on p. 4.
Advertisement: A list of the choicest and most popular new music for all voices on p. 6⁾
Border containing titles of Foster songs on t.p.
Price mark 3 in five-pointed star.
The words "piano" and "guitar" appear on t.p.
First line of text: Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears.
First line of chorus: 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
Foster Hall Collection cutter no.: 207.35.
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. Songs. Selections (Foster's melodies).