I have a different version of the Old Spinning Wheel that I learned from an aunt in 1970. We used to get together to sing song on the porch in her home in Latrobe PA. Here is the version I use and sing.


OLD SPINNING WHEEL

1. There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor
Spinning dreams of the long, long ago,
Spinning dreams of an old fashion garden
And a maid with her old fashion beau.

REFRAIN 1: I can see them alone in the moonlight
Holding hands and speaking soft and low.
There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor
Spinning dreams of the long, long ago.

2. As they walked and talked in the garden
And spoke of things that would be,
They spoke of a house and the garden
And they spoke a little about me.

REFRAIN 2: I can see them alone at the organ
Holding hands and singing Sweet and Low.
There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor
Spinning dreams of the long, long ago.

3. As I sit here alone in the moonlight
And I think of the love that they had,
I think of that maid and her young beau
That I knew as my mother and dad.