There's a "succesor" to "Hard Times" in Levy (CLICK HERE):

Title: Better Times Are Coming Bye and Bye. A Song of the Times for the People. A Successor to the Famous Old Ballad Hard Times Come Again No More.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words and Music by Will C. Carleton.
Publication: New York: Carleton Cavanagh & Co., 1896.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: There are times when trouble's shadows seem to hover 'round our door
First Line of Chorus: Better times are coming bye and bye, the sun will chase the shadows from the sky
Dedicatee: Respectfully Inscribed to Miss Belle Low, Athens, N.Y.
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: unattrib. photo of unidentified woman
Advertisement: ads on back cover for Carleton Cavanagh & Co. stock
Subject: Portraits
Subject: Optimism
Subject: Comfort
Call No.: Box: 140 Item: 041

~Masato