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Joshua Tab

by Dolly Parton


Artist - Dolly Parton
Song   - Joshua


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 
                                   
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 
    
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 
    
And 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 talking when it come daylight 
    
And there was just so much we had to say hey 

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 


           
Me and Joshua 
Me and Joshua 
Me and Joshua yeah yeah 
Me and Joshua