Old Folks-Joe Williams/Edison, Harry

[ti:Old Folks] [ar:Joe Williams/Edison, Harry] [al:Together] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Old Folks - Joe Williams/Edison, Harry
以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 [00:07.62]Composed by：Dedette Lee Hill/Willard Robison [00:15.25]Everyone knows him as old folks
大家都知道他是个老人 [00:21.85]Like the seasons he'll come and he'll go
就像四季更替他来了又去 [00:29.09]Just as free as a bird and as good as his word
就像鸟儿一样自由就像他的诺言一样 [00:36.71]That's why everybody loves him so
所以大家都那么爱他 [00:44.42]Always leaving his spoon in his coffee
总是把勺子落在咖啡里 [00:50.85]Tucks his napkin up under his chin
他把纸巾藏在下巴下面 [00:57.12]And that yellow cow-pie is so mellow it's ripe
黄色的牛馅饼好美味已经成熟 [01:04.72]But you needn't be ashamed of him
但你不必为他感到羞耻 [01:11.95]In the evenings after supper
晚上吃完晚饭 [01:18.72]What stories he tells
他讲了什么故事 [01:26.52]How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day
那天他在葛底斯堡为林肯发表演讲 [01:34.57]I know that one so well
我对那个人了如指掌 [01:42.40]Don't quit understand about old folks
不要放弃要理解老人 [01:49.05]Did he fight for the blue or the gray
他是为蓝色还是灰色而战 [01:55.67]For he's so democratic and so diplomatic
因为他如此民主如此圆滑 [02:02.75]We always let him have his way
我们总是让他为所欲为 [02:11.97]One day they'll be no more old folks
总有一天他们会变成老人 [02:18.53]What a sad old town this will be
这将是一个多么悲伤的老城 [02:24.99]Children's voices at play will be still for a day
玩耍时孩子们的声音会安静一天 [02:32.89]The day they take old folks away
他们带走老人的那一天 [02:40.23]The day they take old folks away
他们带走老人的那一天