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When you walk along the street, how oftentimes you meet
Some poor old man who's gotten old and gray.
With age his back is bent, in his pockets not a cent,
And for shelter he has no place to stay.
His relations by the score, they'll turn him from the door -
They'll see him on the street and pass him by.
If you ask them why they do, they'll turn and say to you,
He
is
old,
hes gray, hes
only
in
the
way.
Now let us cheer them on, for they won't be with us long.
Don't sneer at them because they're old and gray.
Just remember while you're young that for you the day may come,
When you'll be old and gray, and only in the way.
Now my message, I am sure, is for rich as well as poor,
For take a rich man when he's growing old -
His relations 'round him stand, and take him by the hand -
They all want him to die, they want his gold.
And what it's truly worth to own the riches of this earth,
He'll discover at the closing of the day.
After all he's like the poor when his journey's nearly o'er -
He finds he's old and gray and only in the way.
Now let us cheer them on, for they won't be with us long.
Don't sneer at them because they're old and gray.
Just remember while you're young that for you the day may come,
When you'll be old and gray, and only in the way.
- Album:
- Late Night Calls
- Older Than My Old Man Now
- Miscellaneous
- High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project
- Recovery
- 10 Songs For The New Depression
- Career Moves
- Live At the Cactus Cafe
- Clockwork Chartreuse... (Remastered) [Live November 9th...
- Album I
- Album II
- So Damn Happy (Live)
- So Damn Happy
- Album 1
- Songs For The New Depression
- Late Night Calls (Live)
- A Live One
- Cambridge Folk Festival - Celebrating 50 Years
- This is 40
- This Is 40 Soundtrack