- TIS A SONG - THE SIGH OF THE WEARY -

 Hard Times Come Again No More

by

 Stephen Collins Foster

(July 4 1926-January 13 1864)

The first audio recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Company (Edison Gold Moulded 9120) during 1905. It has been recorded numerous times since.

For this posting

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Friends

perform
during the Transatlantic sessions

(Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black,

Karen Matheson & Rod Paterson)

For more about Stephen Foster

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster
http://www.pdmusic.org/foster.html

for more about this song

see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_Come_Again_No_More