Walkaway Joe

   E                           E
Mama told her baby, "Girl, take it 
real slow"
         E
Girl told her mama, "Hey, I 
really gotta go
           C#m
He's waitin' in the car"
                          A
Mama said, "Girl, you won't get far"


[Verse 2]
   E
Thus are the dreams of an average 
Jane
        E
Ninety miles an hour down a lover's 
lane
        C#m
On a tank of dreams
                         A
Oh, if she could have only seen
         B                 F#m    
That fates got cards that it don't
    E
 wanna show


[Chorus]
     B              E
That boy's just a walkaway Joe
                               C#m
Born to be a leaver, tell you from 
the word "go,"
Destined to deceive her, he's the 
  A                 D
wrong kind of paradise
               A                   
She's gonna know it in a matter of 
 B                       E
time, that boy's just a walkaway Joe


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[Verse 3]
   E
Now just a little while into Abilene
     E
He pulls into a station and he robs 
it clean
         C#m
She's waitin' in the car
                    A
Oh underneath the Texaco star


[Verse 4]
     E
She only wanted love, didn't bargain
 for this
     E
She can't help but love him for the 
way he is
         C#m
She's only seventeen
      A
And there ain't no reasoning
            B               F#m   
So she'll ride this ride as far as
   G#m
 it can go

A
[Chorus]
     B                      E
'Cause that boy's just a walkaway 
Joe
                               C#m
Born to be a leaver, tell you from 
the word "go,"
Destined to deceive her, he's the 
   A                 D
wrong kind of paradise
              A                    
She's gonna know it in a matter of 
   B                     E
time, that boy's just a walkaway Joe

F#m7 C#m D F#m C#m A B

[Verse 4]
   E
Somewhere in a roadside motel room
Alone in the silence she wakes up 
                 C#m
too soon and reaches for his arms
                       A
But she'll just keep reachin' on
                B                
Before the cold hard truth 
F#m      Em      A      B
revealed what it had known


[Chorus]
                     E
That boy was just a walkaway Joe
                                C#m
Born to be a leaver, tell you from 
the word "go,"
     C#m                         
Destined to deceive her, he's the 
   A                 D
wrong kind of paradise
            A                    
But it was just another lesson in 
      B                     E     
life, that boy's just a walkaway 
        C#m
Joe


[Otro]
                    E
All he was was a walkaway Joe
         C#m          E
Just a walkaway Joe