Old Black Joe chords by Stephen Foster

Old Black Joe chords
Stephen Foster (as performed by Van Morrison)

C
Gone are the days
    F          C
When my heart was young and gay

Gone are toils
    Dm       G
Of the cotton fields away
C

Gone to the fields
   F       C
Of a better land, I know
 G         C   F
I hear those gentle voices callin' me
C  G   C
Old Black Joe


I'm comin', I'm comin'
     F        C
Though my head is bendin' low
 G         C   F
I hear those gentle voices callin' me
C  G   C
Old Black Joe


C           F          C
Why do I weep, when my heart should feel no pain,
           Dm        G
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again?
C            F      C
Grieving for forms now departed long ago.
 G         C   F    C  G   C
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.


I'm comin', I'm comin'
     F        C
Though my head is bendin' low
 G         C   F
I hear those gentle voices callin' me
C  G   C
Old Black Joe


C              F      C
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
              Dm      G
The children so dear that I held upon my knee?
C             F         C
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go,
 G         C   F    C  G   C
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.
I'm comin', I'm comin'
     F        C
Though my head is bendin' low
 G         C   F
I hear those gentle voices callin' me
C  G   C
Old Black Joe



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