《Old Folks》歌词

[00:00:03] Old Folks - Charlie Parker (查理·帕克)

[00:00:05] Written by：Robison Willard/Hill Dedette Lee

[00:00:12] Everyone knows him as old folks

[00:00:17] Like the seasons he comes and he'll go

[00:00:23] Just as free as a bird

[00:00:27] And as good as his word

[00:00:30] That's why everybody loves him so

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

[00:00:42] Tucks his napkin up under his chin

[00:00:48] And his own corn cob pipe is so mellow

[00:00:52] Hits right

[00:00:54] But you needn't be ashamed of him

[00:01:26] One thing we don't know about old folks

[00:01:30] Did he fight for the blue or the gray

[00:01:36] But he's so democratic and so diplomatic

[00:01:43] We always let him have his way

[00:02:37] In the evenings after supper

[00:02:43] What stories he tells

[00:02:50] How he held his speech

[00:02:51] At Gettysburg for Lincoln that day

[00:02:57] I know that one so well

[00:03:02] Some day there will be no more old folks

[00:03:08] What a lonely old world this will be

[00:03:15] Children's voices at play will be still fonding

[00:03:21] The day they take old folks away