Joshua chords by Shawn Mullins

This is how I play it - I'm pretty sure the song's capo 9, but it's a bit tight for me.
I play it Capo on 4th fret, this sounds pretty good to me. Pretty sure it's in E as well.



C            C
Joshua was an old man, his beard like mountain snow
     F              C
And when I was a boy we'd have jam sessions
C               C
I'd sneak off to old Sharptop, with my guitar I would go
    F                    C
When I should have been at school, learnin' my lessons

     G
And he'd sip a little moonshine
    F
And I'd smoke a corncob pipe
     G               F
And we'd pick all day until our fingers bled
  G
And right around supper time
  F
I'd run home in the night
G                   F  G
Just in time to get a whoppin' from my Dad

  C              C
My friend Joshua tells me that picking wont pay the rent
 F                 C
Well I set out to prove him wrong in time
C             C
I dont guess I can recall all the hours that I spent
    F               C
Just beating on that old flat top of mine
G
Me and my friend Joshua lord
F
We must have played them all
G                       F
And I got to where I could put the old man to shame
G                F
I don't guess it ever seemed to bother Josh at all
G                  F     G
We still loved to pick 'em just the same

 C G     F
 Oh, way back when
 C    G      F
 He was 65 and I was 10
   C       G   F
 And I will never be as free again
 C G     F
  Oh, way back when

C                C
The summer flew by quickly and Josh and I spent our time
     F          C
Writing words to songs from memories of his past
C                   C
He'd tell me bout the way it was and I'd find the perfect rhyme
         F              C
And I couldn't believe how we wrote our songs so fast
     G           F
I never knew an old man could be so full of life
   G              F
The love we had was so hard to explain
  G                    F
And I remember how the tears fell when he spoke of his late wife
     G                F
And I'd give him my 6-string to ease his pain

 C G     F
 Oh, way back when
 C    G      F
 He was 65 and I was 10
   C       G   F
 And I will never be as free again
 C G     F
  Oh, way back when


Instrumental Bridge (Solo): D, F, C, G, D, F, C, G


And then in late November
      F          G                  F
I knocked on his cabin door, I knocked and knocked but Joshua never came
  G              F
And I still remember, how he layed there on the floor
  G             F
And I went home a-cryin' in the rain

 C G     F
 Oh, way back when
 C    G      F
 He was 65 and I was 10
   C       G   F
 And I will never be as free again
 C G     F
  Oh, way back when
 C G     F
  Oh, way back when
 C G     F
  Oh, way back when