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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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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 .

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4. 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.

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5. "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. 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 lived in this crude colliers hut in solitude and freedom.

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7. “Old Black Joe” soundslike a plantation song, and it has been treated as one — but Foster wrote it in proper English, not dialect. There is no direct reference to slavery, either; if Joe weren’t Black, he might be anyone. In any case, it is a dignified song with a truly brilliant Foster melody.

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8. I hear their 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. Grieving for forms now departed long ago. I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe" (Chorus) Where are the hearts once so happy and so free? The children so dear that I held upon my knee.

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9. Jerry Lee Lewis "Old Black Joe": Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay Gone are the toils of the cotton fields away Gone.

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