Walkaway Joe chords by Trisha Yearwood (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: B

Walkaway Joe - Trisha Yearwood featuring Don Henley

Intro:
G  Am
G  Am

Verse:
G
Mama told her baby girl take it real slow
G
Girl told her mama hey I really gotta go
    Em
He's waitin' in the car
          C
Mama said girl you won't get far

Verse:
G
Thus are the dreams of an average Jane
G
90 miles an hour down a lover's lane
   Em
On a tank of dreams
          C
Oh if she could've only seen

Bridge:
D
That fate's got cards
   Am    G   C D
That it don't wanna show

Chorus:
            G
And that boy's just a Walkaway Joe
               Em
Born to be a leaver tell ya from the word go
Em
Destined to deceive her
     C         F
He's the wrong kind of paradise
      C           D
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
         G      C G D
That boy's just a Walkaway Joe

Verse:
G
Just a little while into Abilene
G
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
   Em
She's waitin' in the car
         C
Oh underneath the Texaco star

Verse:
G
She only wanted love didn't bargain for this
G
She can't help but love him for the way he is
   Em
She's only seventeen
          C
And there ain't no reasoning

Bridge:
     D
So she'll ride this ride
  Am   G   C D
As far as it can go

Chorus:
            G
And that boy's just a Walkaway Joe
               Em
Born to be a leaver tell ya from the word go
Em
Destined to deceive her
     C         F
He's the wrong kind of paradise
      C           D
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
         G      C G D
That boy's just a Walkaway Joe

Instrumental Break:
Am Em C F
Am Em C D
Am G  G

G
Somewhere in a roadside motel room
G
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
  Em
And reaches for his arm
           C
But she'll just keep reaching on

Bridge:
    D
For the cold hard truth
 Am     G   C D
Revealed what it had known

Chorus:
            G
And that boy's just a Walkaway Joe
               Em
Born to be a leaver tell ya from the word go
Em
Destined to deceive her
     C         F
He's the wrong kind of paradise
      C           D
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
         G      D/F# Em
That boy's just a Walkaway Joe

Outro:
Em
Ooooh yeah
Em   D/F#   G      G D/F# Em
All he was was a Walkaway Joe
    Em    Em D/F# G
Ooooh oooohoooh
G          G D/F# Em
He was a Walkaway Joe

Em D/F#