Transcribed from vocals by Ethel Waters, recorded
8/1921.
From Ethel
Waters 1921 - 1923, The Chronogical Classics, vol. 796.
They say don't change the old for
the new;
But I've found out that this will
never do;
When you grow old, you don't last
long,
You're just here, my honey, then
you're gone;
I loved a man for many years gone
by,
I thought his love for me would
never die;
He made a change and said I would
not do,
So now I'm going to make some changes,
too.
Why, there's a change in the weather,
there's a change in the sea,
So from now on there'll be a change
in me,
My walk will be be different, my
talk, and my name,
Nothing about me's going to be
the same;
I'm gonna change my long tall one
for a little short 'n fat,
I'm gonna change my number that
I'm living at;
Because nobody wants you when you're
old and gray.
There's gonna be some changes made
today,
There'll be some changes made.
Why, there's a change in the weather,
there's a change in the sea,
So from now on there'll be a change
in me,
Why, my walk will be be different,
and my talk, and my name,
Nothing about me gonna be the same;
I'm gonna change my way of living,
and that ain't no shock,
Why, I'm thinking of changin' the
way I gotta set my clock,
Because nobody wants you when you're
old and gray.
There's gonna be some changes made
today,
There'll be some changes made.
Published 5/12/99.
Ethel Waters starred in both the stage and film version of Cabin in the Sky. The movie also starred Lena Horne and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had minor roles. Waters commented in her remarkable autobiography, His Eye is on the Sparrow, that she didn't enjoy making the movie -- too much behind-the-scenes back-biting.
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