a 1933 popular song
words and music by Billy Hill
The sheet music:
Lyrics
- Covered with dust and forgotten
Like the face upon the wall
The one souvenir of the days gone by
I treasure most of all
Refrain
There’s an old spinning wheel in the parlor
Spinning dreams of the long, long ago
Spinning dreams of an old fashioned garden
And a maid with her old fashioned beau
Sometimes it seems that I can hear her in the twilight
At the organ softly singing “Old Black Joe”
There’s an old spinning wheel in the parlor
Spinning dreams of the long, long a go
- Turn back the years of my childhood
As you turn, old spinning wheel
Just show me a lane with a barefoot boy
As shadows softly steal
Accompaniment track:
Sung here by Fred Feild: