SONG · INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC DOMAIN

Hard Times Come Again No More

Stephen Collins Foster

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0:00 1:10 · ♩ = 72

HARD TIMES COME AGAIN NO MORE — MELODY + ACCOMPANIMENT Engraved with Verovio (verovio.org)

DIFFICULTY: Intermediate
BARS: 21
SECTIONS: 3
TEMPO: ♩ = 72
MELODY NOTES: 82
PARTS: Melody + chords

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Hard Times Come Again No More (1854). Public domain. Encoded mechanically from the public-domain Mutopia Project edition. Typeset by Stan Sanderson. Edition source: Foster's Melodies: New York: Horace Waters, No. 481 Broadway. The melody is the top line of the edition's first staff as printed; the accompaniment is a simplified one-chord-per-bar reduction of the edition’s remaining staves.

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