Old Black Joe-Douglas Jimerson

[ti:Old Black Joe] [ar:Douglas Jimerson] [al:Stephen Foster: A Family Album] [offset:0] [00:00.81]Gone are the days [00:04.34]When my heart was young and gay [00:09.52]Gone are my friends [00:13.60]For the cotton fields away [00:18.40]Gone for the earth [00:22.48]To a better land i know [00:27.26]I hear their gentle voices callin me [00:34.54]Old black joe [00:39.93]I'm comin i'm comin [00:44.45]For my head is bendin low [00:49.45]I hear their gentle voices calling [00:55.18]Old black joe [01:01.34] [01:02.63]Why do i weep [01:06.58]When my heart should feel no pain [01:11.73]Why do i sigh [01:16.38]That my friends come not again [01:21.82]Grieving for froms [01:26.43]Now departed long ago [01:31.21]I hear their gentle voices callin me [01:38.65]Old black joe [01:44.04] [01:45.21]I'm comin i'm comin [01:50.18]For my head is bendin low [01:55.04]I hear their gentle voices calling [02:00.64]Old black joe [02:06.14] [02:07.63]Where are the hearts once so happy and so free [02:15.60]The children so dear that i held upon my knee [02:24.99]Gone to the shore where my soul has long to go [02:33.05]I hear their gentle voices calling [02:39.76]Old black joe [02:46.98]I'm comin [02:51.01]I'm comin [02:54.39]For my head's bendin low [03:00.15]I hear their gentle voices calling [03:06.83]Old black joe [03:15.75]Old Black Joe - Douglas Jimerson [03:16.94]