Shawn Mullins - Joshua

^CJoshua was an old man, h^Cis beard like mountain snow And when ^FI was a boy we'd have jam ses^Csions ^CI'd sneak off to old Sharptop, ^Cwith my guitar I would go When I ^Fshould have been at school, learnin' my ^Clessons

And he'd ^Gsip a little moonshine And I'd ^Fsmoke a corncob pipe And we'd ^Gpick all day until our fingers ^Fbled And ^Gright around supper time I'd ^Frun home in the night ^GJust in time to get a whoppin' from my ^FDad ^G

My ^Cfriend Joshua tells me that ^Cpicking wont pay the rent W^Fell I set out to prove him wrong i^Cn time ^CI dont guess I can recall a^Cll the hours that I spent Just be^Fating on that old flat top of ^Cmine ^GMe and my friend Joshua lord ^FWe must have played them all ^GAnd I got to where I could put the old man to s^Fhame ^GI don't guess it ever seemed to ^Fbother Josh at all ^GWe still loved to pick 'em just the s^Fame ^G

^COh^G, way bac^Fk when ^CHe was 6^G5 and I was ^F10 And ^CI will never b^Ge as f^Free again ^C O^Gh, way back^F when

^CThe summer flew by quickly and J^Cosh and I spent our time Writing w^Fords to songs from me^Cmories of his past ^CHe'd tell me bout the way it was and I^C'd find the perfect rhyme And I couldn't bel^Fieve how we wrote our songs ^Cso fast I never kn^Gew an old man could be^F so full of life The l^Gove we had was so hard to ex^Fplain And^G I remember how the tears fell when he s^Fpoke of his late wife And I'd g^Give him my 6-string to ease his ^Fpain

^COh^G, way bac^Fk when ^CHe was 6^G5 and I was ^F10 And ^CI will never b^Ge as f^Free again ^C O^Gh, way back^F when

I knocked o^Fn his cabin door, I k^Gnocked and knocked but Joshua never c^Fame And^G I still remember, how he la^Fyed there on the floor And ^GI went home a-cryin' in the^F rain

^COh^G, way bac^Fk when ^CHe was 6^G5 and I was ^F10 And ^CI will never b^Ge as f^Free again ^C O^Gh, way back^F when ^C O^Gh, way back^F when ^C O^Gh, way back^F when