Songwriter: Traditional
Producer: Jerry Kennedy
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 coming, I'm coming
For my head is bending low
I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe"
I'm coming home (I'm coming home)
I'm coming home (I'm coming home)
Oh-oh my head is bending low
I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe"
Old Black Joe, Old Black Joe, Old Black Joe
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain?
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again?
Grieving for forms now departed long ago
I hear their gentle voice calling, "Old Black Joe"
Where are the hearts once so happy and free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee?
Gone to the shore where my soul has long'd to go
I hear their gentle voice calling, "Old Black Joe"
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 coming, I'm coming
For my head is bending low
I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe"
I'm coming home (I'm coming home)
I'm coming home (I'm coming home)
Oh-oh my head is bending low
I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe"
Old Black Joe, Old Black Joe, Old Black Joe
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain?
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again?
Grieving for forms now departed long ago
I hear their gentle voice calling, "Old Black Joe"
Where are the hearts once so happy and free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee?
Gone to the shore where my soul has long'd to go
I hear their gentle voice calling, "Old Black Joe"
The Essential Jerry Lee Lewis
- Great Balls of Fire
- Big Blon’ Baby
- I Can’t Seem to Say Goodbye
- Breathless
- It’ll Be Me
- Jambalaya
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Let’s Talk About Us
- Wild One (Real Wild Child)
- Fools Like Me
- Jailhouse Rock
- Hello, Hello Baby
- Goodnight Irene
- Good Rockin’ Tonight
- Ubangi Stomp
- Big Legged Woman
- Settin’ the Woods on Fire
- High School Confidential
- Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Waiting for a Train
- Put Me Down
- Lewis Boogie
- Old Black Joe
- End of the Road
- One Minute Past Eternity
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Crazy Arms
- Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On
- Milkshake Mademoiselle
- Break-Up
- Lovin’ Up a Storm
- Sixty Minute Man
- Invitation to Your Party
- You Win Again
- Mean Woman Blues
- What’d I Say
- Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
- It Won’t Happen with Me
- Hillbilly Fever
- Ole Tyme Country Music (1970)
- The Essential Jerry Lee Lewis (2013)
- Great Balls of Fire
- Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On
- Frankie and Johnny
- You Helped Me Up (When the World Let Me Down)
- I’ll Keep on Loving You
- Let The Good Times Roll
- Come What May
- Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
- Sick and Tired
- Johnny B. Goode
- Hound Dog
- Let’s Talk About Us
- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Money (That’s What I Want)
- Dungaree Doll
- One More Time
- Poison Love
- It Hurt Me So
- Miss the Mississippi and You
- I Ain’t Loved You
- High Heel Sneakers
- I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
- I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive