Joshua chords by
Skeeter Davis
Skeeter Davis

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Key: D major
Verse 1
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D

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Well, a good ways down
the railroad track
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G

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There was this little old run -down shack
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A

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G

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A
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And in it lived a man I'd never seen
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Folks said he was a mean
and a vicious man
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G

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And you better not set foot on his land
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A

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But I didn't think nobody
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could be that mean
So I took me out walkin'
down a railroad track
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G

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I was gonna go down to that
little ol' shack
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A

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And just find out if all them things
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I'd heard was true
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There's a big black dog
layin' out in the yard
And it growled at me and
I swallowed hard
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A

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And I heard somebody say,
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well, who are you?
Oh, and there he stood in
the door of that shack
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G

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And his beard and his
hair was long and black
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A

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And he was the biggest
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A
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man I'd ever seen
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When he spoke his voice was low and deep
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But he just didn't frighten me
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Cause somehow I just
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knew he wasn't mean
He said, what you doin'
snoopin' around my place
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Then I saw a smile come across his face
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So I smiled back and I told him who I was
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He said, come on in,
I'll pull you up the chair
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You might as well since you're
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already here
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A

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And he said,
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you can call me Joshua
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Joshua, Joshua
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A

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What you doin' livin' here all alone?
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Joshua, Joshua,
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ain't you got nobody to
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E

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Em
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call your own?
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We talked till the sun was clean out of sight
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But we were still talkin'
when a come day light calls
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There was just so much we had to say
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Now I'd spent my life in
an orphan's home
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And just like him, I was all alone
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So I said, yeah,
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when he asked me if I'd stay
Well, we grew closer as time went on
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And that little old shack
was a happy home
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And we just couldn't help but fall in love
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And that big black dog in that
little old shack
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A

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Sittin' down there by the railroad track
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It's plenty good enough for
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me and Joshua
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Joshua, Joshua
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Why, you're just what I've been
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lookin' for Joshua, Joshua
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E

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We ain't gonna be lonesome anymore
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E

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Yo, lady, yo, lady, yeah
That don't sound much like Nollie,
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does it?
Well that's the story of me and Joshua.
A real love story.
Me and Joshua.

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