《Old Folks》歌词

[00:00:00] Old Folks - Etta Jones

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

[00:00:13] Everyone knows him as old folks

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

[00:00:29] Just as free as a bird and as good as his word

[00:00:38] That's why everybody loves him so

[00:00:45] Always leaving his spoon in his coffee

[00:00:53] Tucks his napkin up under his chin

[00:01:01] And his own corn cob pipe is so mellow hits right

[00:01:09] But you needn't be ashamed of him

[00:01:18] In the evenings after supper

[00:01:26] What stories he tells

[00:01:33] How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day

[00:01:42] You know I know that one so well

[00:01:49] One thing we don't know about old folks

[00:01:56] Did he fight for the blue or the gray

[00:02:04] But he's so democratic and so diplomatic

[00:02:13] We always let him have his way

[00:02:51] In the evenings after supper

[00:03:00] What stories he tells

[00:03:08] How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day

[00:03:17] Yes I know that one so well

[00:03:24] Some day there will be no more old folks

[00:03:32] What a lonely old world this will be

[00:03:39] Children's voices at play will be still fonding

[00:03:49] The day they take old folks away