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Old Black Joe
written by stephen foster



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OLD BLACK JOE
OLD BLACK JOE   (SONG CAR-TUNES)   1926


Old Black Joe is a popular song by written by Stephen Foster in the mid-1800's, it was inspired by a slave at the home of his father-in-law. The song was first published in 1853, and the song has been recorded numerous times - sometimes as Poor Old Joe. In 1926, the song was used for an installment of Fleischer's Song Car-Toons series, which was made with the DeForest sound-on-film process. The short film was remade later in 1929 as an installment of Screen Songs series - that film is presumed to lost. Old Black Joe also was featured that year in the musical comedy The Hollywood Revue Of 1929. The song is also briefly sung by Billy Murray as Bimbo in the 1931 Talkartoon short Minding The Baby, and it appears in the 1933 Screen Songs short Song Shopping.


1900

THE
HAYDEN
​QUARTET

1904

THE EDISON
​QUARTET

1904

WALTER
B. RODGERS

1910

THE
PEERLESS
​QUARTETTE


1910

ALMA
​GLUCK


1927

​LAWRENCE
​TIBBETT


19??

SIAM
STREET
​DANCE

19??

PAUL
ROBESON

(POOR
​OLD JOE)

19??

NAT
SHILKRET
AND THE
VICTOR
SALON
​GROUP


1937

RICHARD
​CROOKS

19??

GLENN
MILLER
AND HIS
ORCHESTRA

1940

MILLS
​BROTHERS

​

1941

BING
​CROSBY

19??

GENE
​KRUPA
AND HIS
​ORCHESTRA

19??

ROY
RODGERS
AND THE
SONS OF THE
​PIONEERS

1952

C. E.
​JACKSON JR.


19??

NELSON
​EDDY


1958

from
the film

TRAPP
FAMILY

1958

ROBERT
SHAW
​CHORALE

1959

​?

19??

KENNETH
​SPENCER


19??

STAN
KENTON

1959

JERRY
​ADAMS

1960

JERRY
LEE
​LEWIS

1978

MATCHBOX

1979

CRAZY
​CAVAN

19??

RESTLESS

1985

JERRY LEE
​LEWIS 
& JAMES
BURTON

1989

FRANTIC
​FLINTSTONES


1996

KEN
COLYER'S
​JAZZMEN

2000

VAN
​MORRISON


OLD BLACK JOE

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 gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe". 
 
2.
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 
 
3.
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 longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus

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