Trisha Yearwood – Walkaway Joe (Guitar)

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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#