Old Folks-Charlie Parker & His Orchestra

[ti:Old Folks] [ar:Charlie Parker] [al:April in Paris] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Old Folks - Charlie Parker & His Orchestra [00:06.11]Written by：Dedette Lee Hill/Willard Robinson [00:12.22]Everyone knows him as old folks [00:16.50] [00:17.27]Like the seasons he comes and he'll go [00:22.55] [00:23.35]Just as free as a bird [00:26.83]And as good as his word [00:29.35] [00:29.86]That's why everybody loves him so [00:35.27] [00:35.99]Always leaving his spoon in his coffee [00:40.85] [00:41.71]Tucks his napkin up under his chin [00:46.81] [00:47.78]And his own corn cob pipe is so mellow [00:52.54]Hits right [00:53.17] [00:53.89]But you needn't be ashamed of him [00:58.80] [01:24.74]One thing we don't know about old folks [01:28.96] [01:29.95]Did he fight for the blue or the gray [01:35.06] [01:35.78]But he's so democratic and so diplomatic [01:42.04] [01:42.90]We always let him have his way [01:47.43] [02:36.81]In the evenings after supper [02:42.43] [02:43.07]What stories she'll tell [02:48.42] [02:49.78]How he held his speech [02:51.52]At Gettysburg for Lincoln that day [02:55.50] [02:56.57]I know that one so well [03:01.37] [03:02.39]Some day there will be no more old folks [03:06.96] [03:08.10]What a lonely old world this will be [03:13.70] [03:14.37]Children's voices at play will be still fondling [03:20.49]The day they take old folks away