Old Folks (Take 3 / Complete)
Charlie Parker
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Everyone knows him as Old Folks
Like the seasons he'll come and he'll go
Just as free as a bird and as good as his word
That's why everybody loves him so
Always leaving his spoon in his coffee
Puts his napkin up under his chin
And that old corn cob pipe, it's so mellow, it's fine
But you needn't be ashamed of him
Don't I understand about Old Folks?
Did he fight for the blue or the gray?
For he's so diplomatic, and so democratic
We always let him have his way
Every evening after supper
What stories he would tell
How he held the speech at Gettysburg for Lincoln that day
I know that one so well
Someday there'll be no more Old Folks
What a lonely old world this would be
Children's voices at play would be still that day
The day they take Old Folks away
One, two, three, nine, take six, Steve