Walkaway Joe - Trisha Yearwood feat. Don Henley
[Intro]
[C] [Dm]
[Verse 1]
[C]Mama told her baby girl, take it real slow... [C]Girl told her mama, hey, I really gotta go....
he's [Am]waitin' in the car.....mama said, girl [F]you won"t get [F]far..
[C]Thus are the dreams of an average jane...[C]90 miles an hour, down a lover's lane....
on a [Am]tank of dreams..oh, if she could've [F]only seen.[F]..
[Pre-chorus]
[G]that fate's got cards [Dm]that it don't [F]wanna show.[G]..
|[Chorus]
|an' that boy's just a [C]walkaway joe, born to be a leaver, tell [Am]ya from the word go...
|destined to deceive her, he's the [F]wrong kind of paradise[Bb]...
|[F]she's gonna know it in a matter of [G]time....that boy's just a [C]walkaway joe..[Dm][C]
[Verse 2]
[C]Just a little while into Abilene, [C]pulls into a station and he robs it clean....
she's [Am]waitin' in the car....oh,underneath the [F]texaco star[F]...
[C]She only wanted love...didn't bargain for this....[C]she can't help but love him for the way he is...
she's [Am]only seventeen...and there ain't [F]no reasoning...[F]..
[Pre-chorus]
[G]so, she'll ride this ride as [Dm]far as it can go.[F]..[G]
|[Chorus]
|'cause that boy's just a [C]walkaway joe....born to be a leaver... [Am]tell ya from the word go...
|destined to deceive her, he's the [F]wrong kind of paradise[Bb]...
|she's gonna [F]know it in a matter of [G]time...
|.that boy's just a [C]walkaway joe..
[Bridge]
[Dm] [Am] [Bb] [Bb] [Dm] [Am] [F] [G] [C]
[C]Somewhere in a roadside motel room... alone in the silence.[C].. she wakes up too soon...
and [Am]reaches for his arm...but she'll just keep [F]reaching on.[F]...
for the [G]cold, hard truth [Dm]revealed what it had [F]known[G]....[G]
|[Chorus]
|that boy's just a [C]walkaway joe....born to be a leaver... tell [Am]ya from the word go...
|destined to deceive her, he's the [F]wrong kind of paradise[Bb]..but it was just [F]another lesson in
|[G]life
|that boy was a [C]walkaway joe.....[Am]ooooh yeah.....all he was was a [C]walkaway joe
|ooooh..[Am]...ooooh....oooh .................he was a [C]walkaway joe.........[Am]