| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22871 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Stephen Collins Foster (18261864), U.S. songwriter. Old Black Joe, Firth, Pond & Co. (1860).
Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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