We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

hard times

from Telling Tales by Janette Geri

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1.50 AUD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

this song comes from stephen foster (1826-1864), a prolific and beloved irish/American songwriter. his lyrics are a sharp and true as they are tender and resonant, even across time and indeed across every culture. so many are weary.... we need peace. we need to decide for it.
i'd like to thank melanie de bree for bearing gentle witness to my own hard times, and with much love i'd love i'd like to dedicate this song to her, for all the hard times she has made less lonely for so many. and to anyone feeling like something is 'hanging around outside their cabin door', please let me remind you that 'this too will pass' ... meaning that all things do, the good and the bad. everything cycles, and while we can sometimes feel that the good times are gone, the cycle continues, and things will move again ... promise :-)

may the bad times be brief but fruitful, and the good times swift to return.

lyrics

let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
for we all share sorrow with the poor
there's a song that will linger forever in our ears
oh, hard times come again no more

there's a song, a sigh of the weary
hard times, hard times come again no more
many days you have lingered outside my cabin door
oh hard times come again no more

while we seek mirth and beauty
and music bright and gay
there are frail forms waiting by the door
though their voices are silent
their pleading looks will say
oh, hard times come again no more

there's a song, a sigh of the weary
hard times, hard times, come again no more
many days you have lingered outside my cabin door
oh hard times come again no more

credits

from Telling Tales, released November 2, 2007
written ~ stephen foster
arrangement ~ janette geri
clarinet ~ billy abbott

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Janette Geri image

Janette Geri VIC, Australia

contact / help

Contact Janette Geri

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Janette Geri, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now