Walkaway Joe chords by Trisha Yearwood

Walkaway Joe

     Trisha Yearwood feat. Don Henley

Intro: C  Dm


C                        C
Mama told her baby girl, take it real slow... Girl told her mama, hey, I really gotta go....

    Am                    F       F
he's waitin' in the car.....mama said, girl you won"t get far..


C                    C
Thus are the dreams of an average jane...90 miles an hour, down a lover's lane....

    Am                  F     F
on a tank of dreams..oh, if she could've only seen...

G           Dm       F     G
that fate's got cards that it don't wanna show...


            C                   Am
an' that boy's just a walkaway joe, born to be a leaver, tell ya from the word go...

                 F          Dm
destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise...

F                  G            C         Dm  C
she's gonna know it in a matter of time....that boy's just a walkaway joe..


C                 C
Just a little while into Abilene, pulls into a station and he robs it clean....

   Am                   F     F
she's waitin' in the car....oh,underneath the texaco star...


C                         C
She only wanted love...didn't bargain for this....she can't help but love him for the way he is...

  Am                 F       F
she's only seventeen...and there ain't no reasoning.....

G              Dm        F   G
so, she'll ride this ride as far as it can go...


             C                    Am
'cause that boy's just a walkaway joe....born to be a leaver... tell ya from the word go...

                   F        Dm
destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise...

       F           G
she's gonna know it in a matter of time...

          C
.that boy's just a walkaway joe..


bridge:

Dm Am F F Dm Am F G  Dm C     C




C                             C
Somewhere in a roadside motel room... alone in the silence... she wakes up too soon...

   Am                     F      F
 and reaches for his arm...but she'll just keep reaching on....


     G         Dm          F  G  G
for the cold, hard truth revealed what it had known....


          C                     Am
that boy's just a walkaway joe....born to be a leaver... tell ya from the word go...



                  F        Dm         F            G
destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise...but it was just another lesson in life..



        C        Am               C
that boy was a walkaway joe.....ooooh yeah.....all he was was a walkaway joe

    Am                     C               Am
ooooh.....ooooh....oooh .................he was a walkaway joe.........          (fade)