 | The Music of Stephen C. Foster . |  |
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OLD BLACK JOE.
[1]
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.”
CHORUS.
I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low:I hear those gentle voices calling, “Old Black Joe.”
[2]
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no painWhy do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms Now departed long ago?
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.”
[3]
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?The children so dear that I held upon my knee,
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.”
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