Walk Away Joe
Mama told her baby, girl take it real
slow,
Girl told her mama, hey I really wanna go,
He's waiting in the car,
Mama said, girl you won't get far.
Thus are the dreams of an average Jane,
Ninty miles an hour down a lovers lane,
On a tank of dreams,
Oh if she could've seen,
But fate's got cards that it don't want to show,
And that boy's just a...
Walkaway Joe,
Born to be a leaver,
Tell you from the word go,
Destined to deceive her,
He's the wrong kind of paradise,
She's gonna know it in a matter of time,
That boy's just a walkaway Joe.
Now just a little while into Abilene,
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean,
She's waiting in the car,
Underneath the Texaco star,
She only wanted love, didn't bargin for this,
She can't help love him for the way he is,
She's only seventeen,
And there ain't no reasoning,
So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go,
'Cause that boy's just a...
Walkaway Joe,
Born to be a leaver,
Tell you from the word go,
Destined to deceive her,
He's the wrong kind of pradise,
She's gonna know it in a matter of time,
That boy's just a walkaway Joe.
Somewhere in a roadside motel room,
Alone in the silence she wakes up to soon,
And reaches for hs arm,
But she'll just keep reaching on,
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had know,
That boy's just a...
Walkaway Joe,
Born to be a leaver,
Tell you from the word go,
Destined to deceive her,
He's the wrong kind of paradise,
She's gonna know it in a matter of time,
That boy's just a walkaway Joe.
