Old Folks-Etta Jones

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[00:00.00]Old Folks - Etta Jones
[00:13.91]Everyone knows him as old folks
[00:21.75]Like the seasons he comes and he'll go
[00:29.26]Just as free as a bird and as good as his word
[00:38.68]That's why everybody loves him so
[00:45.79]Always leaving his spoon in his coffee
[00:53.77]Tucks his napkin up under his chin
[01:01.57]And his own corn cob pipe is so mellow hits right
[01:09.85]But you needn't be ashamed of him
[01:18.41]In the evenings after supper
[01:26.60]What stories he tells
[01:33.55]How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day
[01:43.28]You know I know that one so well
[01:50.11]One thing we don't know about old folks
[01:57.28]Did he fight for the blue or the gray
[02:05.12]But he's so democratic and so diplomatic
[02:14.08]We always let him have his way
[02:51.85]In the evenings after supper
[03:00.71]What stories he tells
[03:08.84]How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day
[03:17.90]Yes I know that one so well
[03:24.80]Some day there will be no more old folks
[03:32.95]What a lonely old world this will be
[03:40.09]Children's voices at play will be still fonding
[03:49.37]The day they take old folks away