9 thoughts on “ Old Black Joe ”

1. I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.” I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low: I hear those gentle voices calling, “Old Black Joe.” Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain Why do I sigh that my friends come not again.

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2. I hear their gentle voice calling, "Old Black Joe" Submit Corrections. Writer(s): Jerry Lee Lewis. AZLyrics. J. Jerry Lee Lewis Lyrics. album: "Ole Tyme Country Music" () All Around The Watertank (Waiting For A Train) Carry Me Back To Old Virginia. John Henry. Old Black Joe. My Blue Heaven.

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3. Old Black Joe Lyrics: (Verse 1) / Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay / Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away / Gone from the earth to a better land I know / I hear their.

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4. “Old Black Joe” was the last true hit of Foster’s career. Source: The text is M. C. Dean’s, and is very close to Foster’s original. The tune is taken from the original sheet music, with a little bit of fiddling with the timing (folk songs don’t have sixteenth notes); also, I .

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5. About Old Black Joe "Old Black Joe" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (–). It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in Ken Emerson, author of the book Doo-Dah! (), indicates that Foster's fictional Joe was inspired by an African-American servant in the home of Foster's father-in-law, Dr. McDowell of Pittsburgh.

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6. The Kelly Family - Old Black Joe Lyrics. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I k.

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7. Old Black Joe Lyrics: Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay / Gone are the toils of the cotton fields away / Gone to the fields of a better land I know / I hear those gentle voices calling.

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8. Old Black Joe Gone are the days When my heart was young and gay Gone are the toils of the cotton fields, away Gone to the fields of a better land I know I hear those gentle voices calling Old Black Joe I'm comin' home (I'm comin' home) Oh, an' I'm comin' home (I'm comin' home) Well oh well, my head (my head) is bendin' low I hear those gentle.

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9. This is the only known photograph of Joseph Johns (aka Old Black Joe) who was a runaway slave that lived on Camp Bashore property until his death in at the ripe old age of This photo was taken by Simon J Woelfly only a few weeks before Joe's death. He .

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