'Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears' <br />While we look back to the days of yore <br />'There’s a voice that will linger, forever in our ears <br />Oh Hard times, come again no more' <br /> <br />'There’s a song, a sigh o’ the miners <br />Hard times, hard times, come again no more' <br />Many lives were lost a-digging the black, black ore <br />Oh Hard times, come again no more <br /> <br />Well we all stood together when we went out on strike <br />When they closed down the mines in ‘84 <br />Maggie and her cronies said “Get on yer bike” <br />Oh Hard times, come again no more <br /> <br />We’d hunger in our bellies and our backs to the wall <br />We were weary, weary to the core <br />They spent millions to break us, the madness of it all! <br />Oh Hard times, come again no more <br /> <br />We stood up for our right to earn a day’s pay <br />To help keet the wolf from the door <br />Though our voices are silent now, history shall say <br />Oh Hard times, come again no more <br /> <br />There’s a song, a sigh o’ the miners <br />Hard times, hard times, come again no more <br />Many lives were lost a-digging the black black ore <br />Oh Hard times, come again no more<br /><br />Patrick Scott Hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hard-times-come-again-no-more-an-old-song-from-usa-re-drafted-about-the-coal-strike-of-1984-5-in-britain/
