Old Black Joe
by Stephen Foster · harmonica tab for C diatonic harmonica
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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend
Gone are the days
when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends
from the cot-ton fields a-way.
Gone from the earth
to a bet-ter land I know,
I hear their gen-tle voic-es call-ing
Old Black Joe
I'm com-ing, I'm com-ing
for my head is bend-ing low:
I hear those gen-tle voic-es call-ing,
Old Black Joe.