Sorry to be the one to pour cold water on this but IMO adding extra verses to this song is sacrilege of the grossest kind. "Hard Times Come Again No More" is arguably the finest song ever written, and these alleged extra verses certainly did not come from Foster's pen. Whoever penned them, the song does not need them and is not improved by them. Every verse Foster wrote ends with the line "Hard Times, come again no more" So why break the pattern? Also, the last line of the alleged extra verse "To sing all our cares away", would be impossibly clumsy to sing. Try it.

Curmudgeonly

Murray