HARD TIMES COME AGAIN NO MORE
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2022
- Truly 'born on the 4th of July', Stephen Foster began his life in 1826 Pennsylvania. Though having a troubled and tragically brief life spanning only 37 years, Foster nevertheless wrote memorable words and melodies for over 200 songs.
Many of Foster's most well-known songs were created for the blackface minstrel stage performances popular in the mid-1800's prior to the Civil War, such as "The Camptown Races", "The Glendy Burke", and "The Old Folks at Home." In spite of the fact that he only visited the south briefly on his honeymoon in 1852, many of these songs featured Southern themes and settings romanticizing antebellum plantation life. Later in the 1850's and prior to his death in 1864, Foster increasingly embraced the cause of abolition and in his music he began to write songs of a romantic and more sentimental nature, more suited to the public's growing appetite for 'parlor' music, or music performed in the home for entertainment of family and friends. It was his desire to encourage better "taste... among refined people" by creating lyrics that eliminated "the trashy and really offensive words" often found in "songs of that order" (quite a few of which he had earlier written himself !).
In the 1850’s, the United States was experiencing a recession and Stephen’s home town of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, was suffering from record unemployment. Compounding their situation in the summer of 1854, cholera struck killing 400 people in just two weeks. When Firth. Pond & Co. of New York published this song in 1855, "Hard Times" was advertised as “just the song for the times.” Later, this parlor song once again became relevant during the turmoil of the War Between the States.
Written in 1854, "Hard Times Come Again No More" is one of Foster's serious 'sentimental' songs that appealed to the listener's better nature. It's melody, borrowed from a hymn he heard in an African-American church in his childhood, he combined with a four-part chorus in his lyrics, making it more minstrel in style, yet devoid of any references to slave-life or dialect. To this day it remains one of his most enduring compositions and one that we never tired of performing. 
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ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL SONG.
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Greetings from Europe. You always make me happy!!!
Thank you for keeping classic American traditions around
Thanks for tuning in, Fred !!! Much obliged !! Happy New Year ! Stay safe & healthy.
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand God Bless
Such a beautiful song. You are perhaps my favorite band these days. Thank you for keeping our musical heritage alive.
This song brings humanity to the Civil war, these people fought and suffered for their country and for their rights and freedoms!
The South/C.S.A. fought for blood (family) and soil (sovereignty). A successful life is one measured in just that... blood and soil. Life truly is that simple.
@@DerSchleier blood and soil is a reaaally bad term to use in regards to that considering who coined the term and what it actually means a hint
‘Blut und Boden’
Besides while many southerners did fight for house and home the South ruled by its planter class seceded to preserve slavery and the average soldier who enlisted was about 30% more likely to own slaves than the average southerner and there are many letters written by poor and low ranking soldiers after the emancipation proclamation which were incredibly racist
@@pedrosalguero5664 Where are you from? Where did you receive education?
I cannot divulge herein why I am wholly correct and you are flatly indoctrinated/incorrect. Suffice to say... the "money lenders" have used all available methods to enslave us this very day. Perhaps you would pursue non-indoctrination education so as to correct your error.
@@pedrosalguero5664 You are wrong. Less than 2% of U.S. European "Whites" owned a slave. Over 80% of the U.S. "money lender" population owned slaves and they also owned over 94% of the slave ships. Lastly, the U.S. War of Secession was not about slavery but rather about state rights versus Federal rights (in regards to economic law and taxation). Abraham Lincoln himself stated he attacked the South to preserve the Republic not to abolish nor preserve slavery.
I recommend you read the writings of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee for the U.S. history has long been re-written by the "money-lenders".
Respect from italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹
my brother in Christ, we hope to be as based as you guys are soon
Is she keeping true to her words?
I'd give anything to see you guys in concert! God bless you and God bless the south!
Check to see if they are playing cedar creek VA this year.
another great Stephen Foster classic
One of my favorite Foster songs done justice by one of my favorite bands, thank you guys! Greetz from Athens! (not Georgia, the original one in Greece...) ;-)
@Derrick Bridges Georgia is part of the Soviet Union, that collapsed. Most people just say the country of Georgia.
Hello from Athens, Georgia.
This song never has, never is and probably never will be not relevant to humanity.
Pardon me, what does that mean?
@@HistoryBoy I mean that the desire to be free from life’s troubles as put forward in this song is universal.
Love all your songs, stay strong during hard times!
AMEN, Milosz ! Thanks for your comment !
Your authenticity is second to none.
You make me wish I was there to join in the spirit of the camp.
Likewise. Our favorite performance venue...
What a great tune
Stephen Foster's life was a tragic one, but his sorrow directed some beautiful art for those of us who never had the privilege of knowing him.
Excellent rendition!
Great stuff
Would love to be at that fire.. Another great video fellas!
Beautiful song, and even more enjoyable to listen around a campfire.
Beautiful. I dress in 1860s-1890s clothing near daily to keep this spirit alive. It works pretty well.
Except for bluejeans, I wore mid-nineteenth century clothing for the better part of 3 decades. Loved the look.
Greetings from Germany🇩🇪❤
I don't know how this band crossed into my life. I'm from the interior of Brazil, I've always heard a lot of "Brazilian country" so I think I got a taste for it. But it's funny how things happen, right in front of one of the biggest problems I've ever had, I met this band and their songs. The voice, the banjo, all the noises in each song made me want to move on. Maybe too sentimental, but that's what I felt with all these songs.
As the russian, i become with interesting for teaching for American history, started from civilian war in America, only bacause of your music, which I heard in one of the collections on RUclips that came out to me as a recommendation.
Thank for your existence guys you and your music is best!
The BEST band in the land. well done as always. A+
Great!
These guys are so good. Glad I found this channel. Wow
Thanks, Chris ! We're glad too !
Your band has the best cover of this song ❤
Very beautiful song. May hard times come again no more! God bless!
Instant like! Saludos desde Argentina!!
There are few things better than gathering around a camp fire with good friends and good tunes. I know y'all packed up the instruments a few years back, but I'm glad I can still watch these videos. As a southern boy living in the North, this is music to my ears.
Great song for these days
Amen to that !
Excellent job gentlemen!
God bless y’all and God bless the South
god I love this music so much culture and history through those instruments
I love you work and music, wow. Amazing band! Greetings from Spain (Europe).
You guys represent all that I love about America, huge respect and support from France!
Huge thanks for what you are doing, preserving your southern heritage and history.
As a polish man i can very much relate to a lot of the beautifull music that you guys perform.
Best wishes from the heart of eastern europe, stay safe and sound!
I love this song, my favorite Stephen Foster song. you gentlemen did it justice, thank you all a hundred times over.
Pure and precious
I always thought this was an English ballet but wrong, fabulous gentlemen it cheers my day.
Thanks, Gray. Comments like yours cheer MY day !
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
There's pale drooping maiden who
Toils her life away with a worn heart
Whose better days are o'er
Though her voice would be merry
'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
'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
Oh, hard times, come again no more
'Tis a sigh that is wafted
Across the troubled wave
'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'Tis a dirge that is murmured
Around the lowly grave
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
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
Oh, hard times, come again no more
😢 Makes grow men cry.
My Russian man's respect for American 's man people
Вы лучшие из южан!!! 👍👍👍
мы все такие же братья
Несомненно🙂
I'm really hooked up with the melody ! I'm 16 and i love these songs and you all are doing very awesome ! Love it ❤️
Thanks very much ! KInd of you to say.
One of my all time favorites
I have a problem, just can't stop listening to your songs. Greetings from Southern Europe.
Oh dear ! All we can say is we hope you're contagious !!!
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand
You bet that!
Wish my nan was here
These songs got me to start gearing up for reenactments.
Always my favorite of your songs
Hello from Ireland ☘️👍
awesome
Great song and atmosphere! Thank you guys for keeping this music alive.
Big thanks to the 2nd South Carolina String Band, their music is what partially what got me into Civil War history. Thank you, for keeping these beautiful pieces of music around. They probably would have faded long ago. You guys also make the best renditions, especially of this song and of others, like The Invalid Corps and Jine De Cavalry.
Thanks a lot, Random PersonMan (love that !) ! Very kind of you to say so and much appreciated by us !!
I'd really like to hear y'all do land of king cotton. I think that would sound great from y'all
Just simply beautiful, thank you fellas.
Glad to see you're alive and well ^^ ^^
Long live the South a much better time. God bless you all.
We'd better get moving if that is going to happen - very late in the game, my friend! Have you heard news from the southern border lately?
Beautifull song, southern spirit in this song, around the camp fire with jug of bourbon from the south, always faithful semper fi 😊 😊 from tom 🤟 🤟
Thanks, Tom !
Long live to the South
Traitor
@@gtworldzhd4137 You are the traitor. Go run to your ZOG.
I'm sure! Thank you so much guys.
God bless America!
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God save America... Who does not climb there, where she is not called. And does not decide for others how to live.
@@Maks_K074 God bless America!
There are no words to describe this... Love your music and your traditions from Serbia
Is there any Story on the Hat of the Banjo Player? I notice he uses an Iconic slouch hat in the " Far from home " piece. Then in more modern videos he uses a Stovetop hat, That slouch hat has Gotta be the prettiest hat I've seen.
Thanks for noticing. That was a Tim Allen hat (I think he's no longer making them). At the time, he was a 'campaign-style' reenactor, making custom period hats as a 'side-hustle'. At first I was shocked at how wide the brim was, but I soon got over it. For a long time it was my favorite headgear. As time went on, I switched it off now and again with a black slouch having a slightly smaller brim (which I still wear in winter months where I now live). The stovepipe hat was a replacement for an even taller one I'd picked up at Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts (an 1830's era historical site), where they were making them onsite in a working living-history display shop. The brim on that one eventually blew out and we used the the crown for our tip jar. The one you see in the more recent videos was a reasonably priced import from Jamaica or some such place and is no longer available. However, you can still get any of the hats that I've worn, including the straw top hat, from Dirty BIlly's Hats in Gettysburg PA. Tell him, Joe sent you !
Awesome!👏👍
Very good! I would like to have seen more of the whistle player.
Marty was the best, God rest his soul ! Thanks for your comment. We called him 'Meadowlark'. We wish we could've seen more of him too.
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand Sorry to hear that. He was great in this presentation.
Thank you for these.
we needed this right now. appreciate you all
Glorious sound.
God bless
Amazing to see a new video of you guys! I´d love to sometimes visit the States and see you live. My best, best wishes from Germany!
Superb.
Thanks for that, David. Miss ya ! Hope you're well.
Great piece, interpreted masterfully
I have listened to many versions of this song.
Yours is my favorite rendition. Thanks!
I Still love you. I feel so good While listening your music and drinking. I am a Finnish Confederate patriot. Deo Vindice.
Same im an thai confederate
Another wonderful video!
A heartful interpretation of a beautiful piece! Love your band!
The theme song of the Great Depression.
"Hard tack, hard tack, Come again no more!"
Hellfire hellfire stew come again no more!
very nice indeed
One of my favorite pieces!
Great song, love it! Keep 'em comin'!!!✝❤
Do you have any new albums coming out in the near future?
They retired years ago.
Much love from a guitarist in the UK these songs are amazing i am jamming along with you listening to this adding another classic guitar. working my way through your song list this stuff is epic. Already have Irish republican songs under my belt old English and Welsh folk music.
many songs have the same tune Like zip coon becoming "have you ever ever ever in your long legged life" kids song. . What's your opinion on that. I have to chuckle every time I hear something like that😅or watching a load of morris dancers dancing to it having no idea what the music means ☺
The south shall rise again
Irish Republicand and the South being placed together warms my heart. As it should be haha. The fights are for the same (essentially) reason
A la buena música no le hace falta la Luz
Awesome song. Great tune, great vocals, great sound! I wonder when this recording is from though?
Thanks a lot for the kind words, Hickory ! Much appreciated. Recorded about a mile from my Gettysburg home at the time, Labor Day weekend, 1999.
Vive la nouvelle France ⚜️🙏
Very decent song! 🙂
However, I am currently not sure, if Hard Times really Come Again No More, especially when I look at the U.S.
You and me both !
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These hard times continue to get worse tho that's reality people are durt
I wonder what the original hym this was based on sounded like because even in this minstrelised form (probably not a word lol) it still comes off like weary prayer
Our ace researcher looked into it some more, but unfortunately Foster never identified exactly where he heard it or what hymn it was. But then he was a child after all, and probably had other things on his child mind at the time. Just guessing... 🙄
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand Wow thanks for taking the time to look into it! Its a shame to think of how much music we've lost but I'm happy Foster managed to capture what he heard in this song. Hope you're still playing music together, this was a really nice video.
Is the band going to any more songs or remakes of older songs you recorded?
I'm trying to dig up video on stuff we did early on, if that's what you mean. I'm also trying to 're-master' songs that aren't already posted in other versions, if that makes any sense. Our REALLY early recordings are pretty 'raw', I must admit. Not up to our later standards, but interesting nonetheless, some of them. We'll see. Stay tuned. Cold weather is coming and I'll have more time, I hope. We don't have all that much to work with, truth be told. Who knew any of this would happen ?
You're still together, 10 years ago?
That was 24 years ago, actually, and we're not together since the end of 2019. The 'annoyances' of aging, PC/Cancel Culture, and the restrictions of Covid combined in a sort of perfect storm that made it clear the time had come for us to 'drop the mic’ and leave the stage... But thanks for asking !
Somebody help i wanna live at america
Its not worth it
@@falken5688 oh really bro I don't think so because America style it's good one where are you From by the way ?
@@otmanaittaaduit2907 Montana. But the union is a corrupt empire -- some of the states are good, but our rebellious spirit is all but gone, and our supposed "freedom" is nothing more than a facade.
As a American don't come here , we are probably gonna be in another civil war soon with the way things are going .
@@falken5688well spoken brother
will you guys be at gettysburg this year?
Sorry to disappoint, but the only place you'll be able to see us 'in action' going forward, will be on RUclips. The band DIS-banded at the end of 2019, due to aging-out mostly. Most of us started together in 1989, when we were already in our mid-40's. The 'annoyances' of aging, PC/Cancel Culture, and the restrictions of Covid combined in a sort of perfect storm that made it clear the time had come for us to 'drop the mic’ and leave the stage...
It is said, ‘All good things’… etc., etc’. And so they have. It was a GREAT ride while it lasted, thanks to good folks like yourself. But now, for us the ‘event’ has closed and it’s time to go home. We have been truly blessed. Thanks for asking though. I wish we could have had better news for you.
That said, we truly appreciate your kind inquiry. Hopefully, you'll keep an eye out for us on our YT channel - ruclips.net/channel/UC6RHX6u-WDoS0EuMgIyfHrA. Be sure to subscribe, like, and click on the 'bell' to get notifications of new releases.
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand
I'm sad that I won't get to hear such wonderful music in person. God bless all the same. This band is fantastic! :)
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand
That is really sad to hear.
Anyway, thank you for your unwavering contribution to the heritage of the South!
All the best from Germany
I read of late that Stephen Foster's statue was toppled by mobs.😢
Don't know where you read that, but in 2018 the st atue was removed from where it had been for 118 years to a lot next to a dog park in Pittsburg. The PC 'mob' was responsible for that, I reckon.
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand By PC mob you mean the civil rights movement? It's been a controversy in Pittsburgh since the 1960's.
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBandsuch a shame, your music is such a beautiful connection to the past but your statements online really put a damper on it all. I’d love to support you to the fullest extent, but referring to the civil rights movement as the ‘PC mob’ really shows that you hold yourself to those historic standards in the worst of ways. Such a shame. ‘tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
@@superbowlboundMob was put in quotes for a reason.
EU econemy rn
The confederacy had nearly 3 times the amount of latinos fighting on it's side than the North did. By the end of that war there were 10,000 Latinos fighting and dying for the South. Something we don't see or hear much about these days though older Civil War movies did tend to include Latinos from time to time. We also fought and died in the Alamo fighting AGAINST Santa Ana.
Latinos and pure blood texans are forever bros. I am a direct descendant from a man who fought in died in the alamo fighting santa anna.
Dixie will be Free
Dixie forever..
Peace to the world, forever and ever, amen
F of Yeh koward.. Where is peace? Nowhere uselezz koward
W song
God bless america 🙏🏾🦅