VIDEO Mary J. Blige sings “Hard Times” on Hope for Haiti Now Telethon

Watch Mary J. Blige perform “Hard Times” during the Hope For Haiti Now telethon January 22, 2010.

Ever since I heard Bob Dylan do this song on Good As I Been To You it has been one of my favorites and Mary J. Blige does a fantastic job delivering the heart-wrenchingly appropriate classic. (If you like the song, another great performance of it can be fond on EmmyLou Harris’ Live At the Ryman CD.)

To donate to the relief effort please visit Hope For Haiti Now’s web site or call 1-877-99-HAITI.

Browse through the other wonderful musical performances from the Haiti Telethon HERE.

Hard Times lyrics

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 a song… a 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 ones fainting at the door
though their voices are silent
their pleading looks will say
oh, hard times come again no more

’tis a song… a 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 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 a song…a 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

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