4FM #115: Hard Times Come Again No More

Dag van de Arbeid. Een dag waarop het begrip 'solidariteit' een grote rol speelt. Samen. We zijn samen op deze wereld, wat je achtergrond of leefomstandigheid ook is. Daarin rust de relevantie van een parlor song van Stephen Foster: Hard Times Come Again No More.

"Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its 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

While we seek mirth and beauty and music, light and gay
There are frail forms fainting at the door
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh, hard times, come again no more"

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