Old Folks-Etta Jones

[ti:Old Folks] [ar:Etta Jones] [al:Two Sides] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.97]Old Folks - Etta Jones [00:01.95]Written by：Etta Jones/Willard Robison/Dedette Lee Hill [00:05.33] [00:13.67]Everyone knows him as old folks [00:18.41] [00:21.39]Like the seasons he comes and he'll go [00:25.29] [00:29.03]Just as free as a bird and as good as his word [00:35.07] [00:38.33]That's why everybody loves him so [00:41.04] [00:45.41]Always leaving his spoon in his coffee [00:49.21] [00:53.38]Tucks his napkin up under his chin [00:56.97] [01:01.11]And his own corn cob pipe is so mellow hits right [01:07.93] [01:09.51]But you needn't be ashamed of him [01:13.26] [01:18.04]In the evenings after supper [01:21.69] [01:26.19]What stories he tells [01:29.93] [01:33.25]How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day [01:39.22] [01:42.86]You know I know that one so well [01:46.01] [01:49.68]One thing we don't know about old folks [01:52.31] [01:56.98]Did he fight for the blue or the gray [02:00.13] [02:04.73]But he's so democratic and so diplomatic [02:10.93] [02:13.69]We always let him have his way [02:16.82] [02:51.52]In the evenings after supper [02:56.77] [03:00.31]What stories he tells [03:05.32] [03:08.47]How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day [03:13.83] [03:17.56]Yes I know that one so well [03:19.66] [03:24.41]Some day there will be no more old folks [03:27.76] [03:32.54]What a lonely old world this will be [03:36.17] [03:39.80]Children's voices at play will be still fonding [03:46.58] [03:49.06]The day they take old folks away