Old Black Joe chords by Stephen Foster

Chords with lyrics

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

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

Gone are toils
    DmDm       G+G
Of the cotton fields away
C majorC
Gone to the fields
   FF       C majorC
Of a better land, I know
 G+G         C majorC   FF
I hear those gentle voices callin' me
C majorC  G+G   C majorC
Old Black Joe

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


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


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


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


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