Walkaway Joe

                                  Mama told her baby girl take it real slow

Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go 

He's waiting in the car 

Mama said girl you won't get far 

Thus are the dreams of an average Jane 

Ninety miles an hour down a lovers lane

On a tank of dreams 

Oh if she could've only seen 

That fate's got cards that it don't want to show, and



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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 

He pulls into a station and he robs it clean 

She's waiting in the car, oh, underneath the Texaco star 

She only wanted love didn't bargain for this 

She can't help but love him for the way he his 

She's only seventeen and there ain't no reasoning 

So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go, 'cause



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Somewhere in a roadside motel room 

Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon 

And reaches for his arms 

But she'll just keep reaching on 

For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known 



That boy's just a walk away Joe 

Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go 

Destined to deceive her 

He's the wrong kind of paradise 

But it was just another lesson in life 

That boy was a walkaway Joe 



Mmm yeah,

All he was was a walkaway Joe 

Oh,

(Walkaway Joe)

He was a walkaway Joe

Mmm