Old Folks - Joe Williams/Harry ''Sweets'' Edison

作曲：Dedette Lee Hill/Willard Robison

Everyone knows him as old folks

Like the seasons he'll come and he'll go

Just as free as a bird and as good as his word

That's why everybody loves him so

Always leaving his spoon in his coffee

Tucks his napkin up under his chin

And that yellow cow-pie is so mellow it's ripe

But you needn't be ashamed of him

In the evenings after supper

What stories he tells

How he held his speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day

I know that one so well

Don't quit understand about old folks

Did he fight for the blue or the gray

For he's so democratic and so diplomatic

We always let him have his way

One day they'll be no more old folks

What a sad old town this will be

Children's voices at play will be still for a day

The day they take old folks away

The day they take old folks away