1、歌词：
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.
（合唱）
I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear those gentle voices calling, Old Black Joe.
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms now departed long ago.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”.
（合唱）
I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear those gentle voices calling, Old Black Joe.
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee,
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.
（合唱）
I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear those gentle voices calling, Old Black Joe.
翻译：
快乐童年，如今一去不复返，亲爱朋友，都已离开家园，离开尘世到那天上的乐园，我听见他们轻声把我呼唤，我来了，我来了，我已年老背又弯，我听见他们轻声把我呼唤。
为何哭泣，如今我不应忧伤，为何叹息，朋友不能重相见？为何悲痛，亲人去世已多年。我听见他们轻声把我呼唤，我来了，我来了，我已年老背又弯，我听见他们轻声把我呼唤。
幸福伴侣，如今东飘西散，怀中爱儿，早已离我去远方，他们已到我所渴望的乐园。我听见他们轻声把我呼唤，我来了，我来了，我已年老背又弯，我听见他们轻声把我呼唤。
2、《老黑奴》是一首由史蒂芬·柯林斯·福斯特（1826-1864）创作的美国民歌，原名《old black Joe》。作者写作本曲除了寄托对老黑奴的哀思以外，也融进了对自己当时境遇的哀叹。