====== #262 - Old Black Joe ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Stephen Collins Foster|{{search>"Stephen Collins Foster" @cobs}}++ (1826-1864), 1860
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  *[[:incipit]]: 13455617651345565432
  *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 134561765134565432
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  *++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 know,\\
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".\\
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I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low,\\
I hear those gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".\\
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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".\\
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Where are the hearts once so happy and so 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 voices calling "Old Black Joe".\\
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    *++Stephen Collins Foster|{{search>"Stephen Collins Foster" @cobs}}++ (1826-1864), 1860