I'm currently doing some research into the cotton famine of the 1860's and have come across a version of Stephen Foster's 'Hard Times' entitles 'Short Time'. As it stands I can only find one verse and chorus although I believe there to be four verses.

The verse and chorus I have available reads as follows:-

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count it's many tears,
While we sup sorrow with the poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears,
Oh, short time, come again no more.

Chorus.

It's the song of the factory operatives,
Short time, short time, come again no more;
For we can't get our cotton from the old Kentucky shore;
Oh, short time, short time, come again no more.

If anyone can help with the rest of this I'd be mucho grateful...


All the best...............Harry Basnett.