OLD COUNTRY, THE
(Nathaniel Adderley / Curtis R Lewis

as recorded by Nancy Wilson
1961


Hey, you old man sittin'
By the lonesome road,
It's 'bout time you're quittin'
Life's old tiresome load!

You're so sad and lonely,
Got no family,
Just an old man from
Some old country.

You ain't sired no chillun,
Ain't none by your side,
You left all your women,
Ain't you satisfied?

Don't just sit there clingin'
To a memory
Of a love left in
Some old country!

Don't nobody need you, old man?
'Cause nobody calls you name!
Nobody's gonna whisper,
"What a doggone shame!"

So the cold grim reaper
Has no sympathy,
You won't see your homeland,
'Cept through me!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - May 2017)