Written by: Vince McLamed/Greg Barnhill
Walkaway Joe Trisha Yearwood
C
Momma told her baby, girl take it real slow
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
Dm F
He's waitin' in the car
Dm F G
Momma said girl you won't get far
C
Thus are the dreams of an average Jane
Ninety miles an hour down a lovers lane
Dm F Dm F
On a tank of dreams Oh if she could've only seen
G F G
But fate's got cards that it don't want to show And that boy's just
CHORUS:
F C
A walkaway Joe Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
F Bb
He's a wrong kinda parad-ise
C G
1.& 2.)She's gonna know it in a matter of time
3.) But it was just another lesson in life
F G C
That boy's just a walkway Joe
C
Now just a little while into Abilene
C
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
Dm F Dm F G
She's waitin' in the car Underneath the Texaco star
C
She only wanted love didn't bargain for this
C
She can't help but love him for the way he is.
Dm F Dm F
She's only seventeen And there ain't no reasoning
G F G
So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go Cause that boy's just
go to chorus, to lead, to third verse
C
Somewhere in a roadside motel room
C
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
Dm F Dm F
And reaches for his arm But she'll just keep reachin' on
G F G
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known That boy's just
go to chorus.
Ending:
Mmmm yeah Alkl he was a walkaway Joe ooooh walkaway Joe Walkaway Joe
Mmmmmm
