Michael Ray — Walkaway Joe

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WALKAWAY JOE
As recorded by Michael Ray
(From the 2022 BOOTLEGGER SESSIONS)



[Intro]
C    F


[Verse 1]
C
Momma told her baby, girl take it real slow
C
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
             Am
He's waitin' in the car
                    F
Momma said girl you won't get far
C
Thus are the dreams of an average Jane
C
Ninety miles an hour down a lovers lane
   Am
On a tank of dreams
                   F
Oh if she could've only seen
    G                     Dm               F
But fate's got cards that it don't want to show
G
And that boy's just


[Chorus]
  C
A walkaway Joe
C
Born to be a leaver
         Am
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
         F                 Bb
He's the wrong kind of paradise
            F
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
G                 C              F
That boy's just a walkaway Joe


[Verse 2]
    C
Now just a little while into Abilene
C
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
         Am
She's waitin' in the car
               F
Underneath the Texaco star
    C
She only wanted love didn't bargain for this
C
She can't help but love him for the way he is
        Am
She's only seventeen
                   F
And there ain't no reasoning
          G                 Dm             F
So she'll ride this ride as far as it will go
G
Cause that boy is just


[Chorus]
  C
A walkaway Joe
C
Born to be a leaver
         Am
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
         F                 Bb
He's the wrong kind of paradise
            F
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
G                 C              F
That boy's just a walkaway Joe


[Verse 3]
C
Somewhere in a roadside motel room
C
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
   Am
Reaches for his arms
                     Dm        F
But she'll just keep reachin' on
        G                 Dm                 F  G
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known
G
That boy is just


[Chorus]
  C
A walkaway Joe
C
Born to be a leaver
         Am
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
         F                 Bb
He's the wrong kind of paradise
           F                      G
But it was just another lesson in life
                    C
That boy was just a walkaway Joe


[Outro]
C   Am7                 C             Am7
      He only was was a walkaway Joe
Am                C
That boy's just a walkaway Joe