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Version 1Walkaway Joe Trisha Yearwood feat. Don Henley [Intro] C Dm [Verse 1] C C Mama told her baby girl, take it real slow... Girl told her mama, hey, I really gotta go.... Am F F he's waitin' in the car.....mama said, girl you won"t get far.. C C Thus are the dreams of an average jane...90 miles an hour, down a lover's lane.... Am F F on a tank of dreams..oh, if she could've only seen... [Pre-chorus] G Dm F G that fate's got cards that it don't wanna show... [Chorus] C Am an' that boy's just a walkaway joe, born to be a leaver, tell ya from the word go... F Bb destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise... F G C Dm C she's gonna know it in a matter of time....that boy's just a walkaway joe.. [Verse 2] C C Just a little while into Abilene, pulls into a station and he robs it clean.... Am F F she's waitin' in the car....oh,underneath the texaco star... C C She only wanted love...didn't bargain for this....she can't help but love him for the way he is... Am F F she's only seventeen...and there ain't no reasoning..... [Pre-chorus] G Dm F G so, she'll ride this ride as far as it can go... [Chorus] C Am 'cause that boy's just a walkaway joe....born to be a leaver... tell ya from the word go... F Bb destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise... F G she's gonna know it in a matter of time... C .that boy's just a walkaway joe.. [Bridge] Dm Am Bb Bb Dm Am F G C C C Somewhere in a roadside motel room... alone in the silence... she wakes up too soon... Am F F and reaches for his arm...but she'll just keep reaching on.... G Dm F G G for the cold, hard truth revealed what it had known.... [Chorus] C Am that boy's just a walkaway joe....born to be a leaver... tell ya from the word go... F Bb F G destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise..but it was just another lesson in life C Am C that boy was a walkaway joe.....ooooh yeah.....all he was was a walkaway joe Am C Am ooooh.....ooooh....oooh .................he was a walkaway joe......... (fade)