Old Folks-Ernestine Anderson

[ti:Old Folks] [ar:Ernestine Anderson] [al:Never Make Your Move Too Soon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Old Folks - Ernestine Anderson [00:15.45]Everyone knows him as old folks [00:22.68] [00:24.24]Like the seasons he'll come and he'll go [00:29.87] [00:32.01]Just as free as a bird [00:34.06] [00:36.10]And as good as his word [00:38.57] [00:40.39]That's why everybody loves him so [00:45.10] [00:47.03]Always leaving his spoon in his coffee [00:53.41] [00:57.12]Tucks his napkin up under his chin [01:01.18] [01:04.68]And his own corn cob pipe is so mellow [01:11.15]Hits right [01:12.12] [01:14.23]But you needn't be ashamed of him [01:19.20] [01:21.47]In the evenings after supper [01:27.22] [01:31.25]What stories he tells [01:37.26]How he held his speech [01:40.10]At Gettysburg for Lincoln that day [01:44.37] [01:47.12]You know I know that one so well [01:52.74] [01:55.23]We don't know understand about old folks [01:58.54] [02:02.68]Did he fight for the blue or the gray [02:08.58] [02:11.29]But he's so democratic and so diplomatic [02:19.23] [02:21.13]We always let him have his way [02:28.13] [06:18.96]Some day there gona be no more old folks [06:24.07] [06:27.58]What a lonely old world this will be [06:31.26] [06:33.98]Children's voices [06:35.45]At play be still for one day [06:40.48] [06:46.01]The day they day take old folks away