Joshua Lyrics

Joshua was an old man�
his beard like mountain snow�
and when I was a boy we'd have jam sessions�
I'd sneak off to old Sharptop�
with my guitar I would go�
when I should have been at school�
learnin' my lesson�
and I'd sip a little moonshine�
and I'd smoke a corncob pipe�
and we'd pick all day until our fingers bled�
and right around supper time�
I'd run home in the night�
just in time to get a whippin' from my Dad�
oh way back when�
he was 65 and I was 10�
and I will never be as free again�
oh way back when�
the summer flew by quickly�
and Josh and I spent out time�
writing words to songs from memories of his past�
he'd tell me bout the way it was�
and I'd find the perfect rhyme�
and I couldn't believe how we wrote our songs so fast�
I never knew an old man�
could be so full of life�
the love we had was so hard to explain�
and I remember how the tears fell when he spoke of his late wife�
and I'd give him my 6-string to ease his pain�
oh way back when�
he was 65 and I was 10�
and I will never be as free again�
oh way back when�
and then in late November�
I knocked on his cabin dor�
I knocked and knocked but Joshua never came�
and I still remember�
how he layed there on the floor�
and I went home cryin' in the rain�
oh way back when�
he was 65 and I was 10�
and I will never be as free again�
oh way back when�
oh way back when�
oh way back when
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