Found at the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music:

OLD AND ONLY IN THE WAY
Words, P. J. Downey. Music, L. T. Billings.
New York: T. B. Harms & Co., 1880.

1. As we walk through the street, how often we meet
Some poor old man whose life is naught but woe;
With age his form is bent, in his pocket not a cent,
And for shelter they do not know where to go.
With relations by the score, who keep them from the door,
And meeting on the street they pass them by;
If you ask them why it's done, they will answer you and say:
"We're poor, we're old, and only in the way!"

CHORUS: So let us cheer them on. They won't be with us long.
Don't let us sneer because they're old and gray;
And remember while we're young, the days to us may come
When we'll be old and only in the way.

2. There was a time I hear, when the young were not so queer,
But since that time, there's come an awful change:
Young men in health and might, their old parents they will strike,
And it happens every day; it's nothing strange.
Take this poor wreck of toil: his children him do spurn,
For death, I'm sure, he oftentimes does pray.
Himself and faithful wife, after toiling all their life,
When old, they find that they are in the way. CHORUS.

3. My little song, I'm sure, is for rich as well as poor,
For take a rich man when he's growing old:
His friends will shake his hand, his relations round him stand.
Awaiting him to die, they want his gold.
Then let us from this hour, do all that's in our power
To make the road for old folks light and gay;
And if they trouble on us cast, why let this be our last
To say: that they are old, and in the way. CHORUS.

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OLD AND IN THE WAY was recorded by
Fiddlin' John Carson in 1924 and again in 1927.
John Carson and Moonshine Kate in 1934.

OLD AND ONLY IN THE WAY was recorded by:
Charlie Poole's North Carolina Ramblers in 1928
Kentucky Girls in 1928
Oliver Moore in 1928
Arkansas Woodchopper in 1930
West Virginia Railsplitters in 1930

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