《Old Folks》歌词

[00:00:00] Old Folks - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra

[00:00:01] Written by：Willard Robison/Dedette Lee Hill

[00:00:17] Everyone knows him as old folks

[00:00:21] Like the seasons he comes and he'll go

[00:00:26] Just as free as a bird and as good as his word

[00:00:31] That's why everybody loves him so

[00:00:36] Always leaving his spoon in his coffee

[00:00:41] Put his napkin up under his chin

[00:00:46] And his yellow cob pipe is so mellow hits right

[00:00:51] But you needn't be ashamed of him

[00:00:56] In the evenings after supper

[00:01:01] What stories he would tell

[00:01:05] How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day

[00:01:11] I know that one so well

[00:01:16] Don't quite understand about old folks

[00:01:20] Did he fight for the blue or the gray

[00:01:25] For he's so diplomatic and so democratic

[00:01:31] We always let him have his way

[00:01:55] Then he missed the late train at the station

[00:02:14] Every friday he'll go fishing

[00:02:20] We down on father's lake

[00:02:24] But he only hooks a perch or two

[00:02:27] The whale got away

[00:02:31] So we warm up the steak

[00:02:34] Or someday there'll be no more old folks

[00:02:40] What a lonely old town this will be

[00:02:45] Children's voice at play will be still for a day

[00:02:50] The day that they take old folks away