Old Country - Dianne Reeves

Through the years you wasted

I waited patiently

While the joys you tasted

Not a word from me Now that age is creeping

Cross your pale gray brow

T’aint no use in weeping

It’s too late now

Hey you old man sitting

By the lonesome road

It’s about time you’re quitting

Life’s old tiresome mode

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

Whooo ain’t you satisfied

Don’t just sit there clinging to a memory

Of a love left in some old country

No nobody needs you old man

'cause nobody calls your name

And nobody even whispers

Oh what a doggone shame

So the cold grim reaper

Has no sympathy

You won’t see your homeland

'cept through me You won’t see your homeland

'cept through me Stop crying

Age is creeping

You won’t see your homeland

'cept through me