The lost chord

I have just finished ordering a piece of sheet music, at $6.95.

The reason I ordered it?  One bleedin’ chord.

For years I’ve been trying to figure out the chorus to the Red Clay Ramblers’ version of Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More”—Mike Craver, their piano player, did the arrangement.  And there’s a single diminished chord he used in the chorus that’s in no other arrangement of the song I’ve ever heard, and I have not been able to work out what it is.  I can sing the component notes of the blasted thing, but when it comes to trying to get it into notation—no.  So I just finished ordering the sheet music for the song from Craver’s Web site, to learn what it is.

I hope this one chord turns out to be worth it.