Old Folks-Charlie Parker

[ti:Old Folks] [ar:Charlie Parker] [al:The Complete Norman Granz Master Takes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:03.01]Old Folks - Charlie Parker (查理·帕克) [00:05.18] [00:05.76]Written by：Robison Willard/Hill Dedette Lee [00:09.30] [00:12.69]Everyone knows him as old folks [00:17.14] [00:17.76]Like the seasons he comes and he'll go [00:23.14] [00:23.75]Just as free as a bird [00:27.33]And as good as his word [00:30.29]That's why everybody loves him so [00:35.40] [00:36.59]Always leaving his spoon in his coffee [00:41.17] [00:42.19]Tucks his napkin up under his chin [00:47.24] [00:48.29]And his own corn cob pipe is so mellow [00:52.89]Hits right [00:53.98] [00:54.73]But you needn't be ashamed of him [00:59.40] [01:26.13]One thing we don't know about old folks [01:29.58] [01:30.68]Did he fight for the blue or the gray [01:35.68] [01:36.44]But he's so democratic and so diplomatic [01:42.83] [01:43.43]We always let him have his way [01:47.97] [02:37.97]In the evenings after supper [02:43.03] [02:43.61]What stories he tells [02:48.95] [02:50.35]How he held his speech [02:51.86]At Gettysburg for Lincoln that day [02:56.12] [02:57.21]I know that one so well [03:02.03] [03:02.95]Some day there will be no more old folks [03:07.58] [03:08.89]What a lonely old world this will be [03:14.58] [03:15.09]Children's voices at play will be still fonding [03:20.70] [03:21.25]The day they take old folks away