Joshua

Album: Joshua (1970)
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  • Well, a good ways down the railroad track
    There was this little old rundown shack
    And in it lived a man I'd never seen
    Folks said he was a mean and a vicious man
    And you better not set foot on his land
    But I didn't think nobody could be that mean

    So I took me out walking down the railroad track
    I was a-gonna go down to that little old shack
    And just find out if all them things I'd heard was true
    There was a big black dog laying out in the yard
    And it growled at me and I swallowed hard
    And I heard somebody say, "well, who are you?"
    Oh, and there he stood in the door of that shack
    And his beard and his hair was long and black
    And he was the biggest man I'd ever seen

    When he spoke his voice was low and deep
    But he just didn't frighten me
    'Cause somehow I just knew he wasn't mean
    He said, "What you doing snooping 'round my place?"
    Then I saw a smile come across his face
    So I smiled back and I told him who I was
    He said come on in and pull you up a chair
    You might as well since you already here
    And he said, "You can call me Joshua"

    Joshua, Joshua
    Whatcha doing living here all alone?
    Joshua, Joshua
    Ain't you got nobody to call your own?
    No no, no no

    We talked 'til the sun was clean out of sight
    And we still talkin' when it come daylight
    And there was just so much we had to say
    I'd spent my life in an orphan's home
    And just like him I was all alone
    So I said, "Yeah," when he asked if I'd stay
    Oh, we grew closer as time went on
    And that little old shack it was a happy home
    And we just couldn't help but fall in love
    That big black dog and that little old shack
    Sitting down by the railroad track
    It's plenty good enough for me and Joshua

    Joshua, Joshua
    Why you're just what I've been looking for
    Joshua, Joshua
    You ain't gonna be lonesome anymore
    No no

    Yodel-a-he-ho la-he-he-he-he-he
    Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa

    Me and Joshua
    Me and Joshua
    Me and Joshua, yeah yeah
    Me and Joshua Writer/s: Dolly Parton
    Publisher: Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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