Van Morrison – Old Black Joe (Guitar)

C
Gone are the days

        F                   C
When my heart was young and gay

       Dm             G
Of the cotton fields away

C
Gone to the fields

     F              C
Of a better land, I know

  G                 C      F
I hear those gentle voices callin' me

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Old Black Joe

          F               C
Though my head is bendin' low

  G                 C      F
I hear those gentle voices callin' me

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Old Black Joe

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Why do I weep, when my heart should feel no pain,

                      Dm                G
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again?

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Grieving for forms now departed long ago.

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I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

          F               C
Though my head is bendin' low

  G                 C      F
I hear those gentle voices callin' me

C   G     C
Old Black Joe

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Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?

                            Dm           G
The children so dear that I held upon my knee?

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Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go,

  G                 C      F       C   G     C
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

          F               C
Though my head is bendin' low

  G                 C      F
I hear those gentle voices callin' me

C   G     C
Old Black Joe