Gone are my  days when my heart was young and gay.
Gone are my  friends from cottern fields away.
Gone from the  earth to a better land I know.
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.
"I am coming I am coming".For my head is bending low.
  I  hear their gentle  voices calling  Old Black Joe.
      中文大意:  
       快乐童年为何一去不复返!
       亲爱的朋友早已离开家园!
       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