3:29
single, 1928
Written by Charlie Poole and Norman Woodlieff
Poole's rudimentary banjo fingerpicking is supplemented by a plaintive violin in this old-timey tearjerker, whose lyric is so maudlin that it veers into satire: "And sure for death ofttimes they do pray / For himself and faithful wife been toiling all their lives / To find they're old and only in the way." It's genuinely bleak, but there's something almost darkly comic about just how thoroughly the song wallows in the misery of growing old and unwanted.
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