Joshua chords by Skeeter Davis

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Verse 1
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 (D major) Well, a good ways down
the railroad track
G 
There  (G major) was this little old run -down shack
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G 
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And  (A major) in it lived a  (G major) man I'd never seen  (A major) 
D 
Folks  (D major) said he was a mean
and a vicious man
G 
And you  (G major) better not set foot on his land
A 
But  (A major) I  didn't think nobody
D 
could be that mean  (D major) 
So I took me out walkin'
down a railroad track
G 
I was  (G major) gonna go down to that
little ol' shack
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G 
And just  (A major) find out if all  (G major) them things
A 
I'd heard  (A major) was true
D 
There's a  (D major) big black dog
layin' out in the yard
And it growled at me and
I swallowed hard
A 
And I  (A major) heard somebody say,
G 
D 
well,  (G major) who are  (D major) you?
Oh, and there he stood in
the door of that shack
G 
And his  (G major) beard and his
hair was long and black
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And he was  (A major) the biggest
G 
A 
man  (G major) I'd ever seen  (A major) 
D 
When he  (D major) spoke his voice was low and deep
G 
But  (G major) he just didn't frighten me
A 
Cause  (A major) somehow I just
D 
knew he wasn't  (D major) mean
He said, what you doin'
snoopin' around my place
G 
Then I  (G major) saw a smile come across his face
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G 
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So I  (A major) smiled back and I told  (G major) him who I was  (A major) 
D 
He said,  (D major) come on in,
I'll pull you up the chair
G 
D 
You  (G major) might as  (D major) well since you're
G 
 (G major) already here
A 
An (A major) d  he said,
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G 
you can call me Joshua  (D major)  (G major) 
D 
Joshua,  (D major) Joshua
A 
What  (A major) you doin' livin' here all alone?
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G 
D 
 (D major) Joshua,  (G major)  (D major) Joshua,
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ain't you  (A major) got nobody to
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D 
E 
Em 
 (G major) call your  (D major) own?  (E major)  (E minor) 
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 (E major) We talked till the sun was clean out of sight
A 
But  (A major) we were still talkin'
when a come day light calls
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A 
B 
 (B major) There was just so  (A major) much we had to say  (B major) 
E 
Now I'd  (E major) spent my life in
an orphan's home
A 
And  (A major) just like him, I was all alone
B 
So I  (B major) said, yeah,
E 
when he asked me if I'd  (E major) stay
Well, we grew closer as time went on
A 
And that  (A major) little old shack
was a happy home
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A 
B 
And  (B major) we just couldn't help  (A major) but fall in love  (B major) 
E 
And that  (E major) big black dog in that
little old shack
A 
Sittin'  (A major) down there by the railroad track
B 
It's  (B major) plenty good enough for
E 
A 
me and Joshua  (E major)  (A major) 
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Joshua,  (E major) Joshua
B 
Why,  (B major) you're just what I've been
E 
A 
E 
 (E major) lookin' for Joshua,  (A major)  (E major) Joshua
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A 
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We  (B major) ain't gonna be lonesome  (A major) anymore  (E major) 
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E 
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Yo, lady, yo, lady,  (B major) yeah  (E major)  (A major)  (E major)  (B major) 
That don't sound much like Nollie,
E 
 (E major) does it?
Well that's the story of me and Joshua.
A real love story.
Me and Joshua.