Old Black Joe

Old Black Joe_ Stephen Foster

*아내 친정의 흑인 노예 Joe에 대한 그리움. 미국 흑인 인권을 다룬 노래

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 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.

*grieve for: ~에 대해서 매우 슬퍼하다

*Chorus

Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee? (내 무릎에 안고 있던 그 소중한 아이들)
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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