Hard times

Hard times

La formichina "stravolta" con le antennine basse, degna di un cartone animato, mi ha suggerito l'inserimento in questa sezione.
Ma il titolo mi porta a riferimenti più seri e ad una proposta di ascolto, un classico folk di Stephen Fosters, che in molti hanno cantato e cantano ancora:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstfG98GxFk&feature=related
Per tutti coloro che, a vario titolo, stanno passando tempi duri...

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.
Chorus:

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.
(Chorus)

There's a 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.
(Chorus)

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.
(Chorus)

Una traduzione che mi pare valida la trovate qui:
http://minimazione.splinder.com/archive/2009-11
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Pentax K100D Super+Tamron 18-200mm, f/8, 1/750 sec., ISO-200, esp. 0, dist. foc. 200 mm. Scatto a mano libera. Ma stavolta i dati sono meno importanti!