Walkaway Joe chords by Trisha Yearwood

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: BB

Walkaway Joe - Trisha Yearwood featuring Don Henley

Intro:
G+G  A minorAm
G+G  A minorAm

Verse:
G+G
Mama told her baby girl take it real slow
G+G
Girl told her mama hey I really gotta go
    E minorEm
He's waitin' in the car
          C majorC
Mama said girl you won't get far

Verse:
G+G
Thus are the dreams of an average Jane
G+G
90 miles an hour down a lover's lane
   E minorEm
On a tank of dreams
          C majorC
Oh if she could've only seen

Bridge:
D MajorD
That fate's got cards
   A minorAm    G+G   C majorC D MajorD
That it don't wanna show

Chorus:
            G+G
And that boy's just a Walkaway Joe
               E minorEm
Born to be a leaver tell ya from the word go
E minorEm
Destined to deceive her
     C majorC         FF
He's the wrong kind of paradise
      C majorC           D MajorD
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
         G+G      C majorC G+G D MajorD
That boy's just a Walkaway Joe

Verse:
G+G
Just a little while into Abilene
G+G
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
   E minorEm
She's waitin' in the car
         C majorC
Oh underneath the Texaco star

Verse:
G+G
She only wanted love didn't bargain for this
G+G
She can't help but love him for the way he is
   E minorEm
She's only seventeen
          C majorC
And there ain't no reasoning

Bridge:
     D MajorD
So she'll ride this ride
  A minorAm   G+G   C majorC D MajorD
As far as it can go

Chorus:
            G+G
And that boy's just a Walkaway Joe
               E minorEm
Born to be a leaver tell ya from the word go
E minorEm
Destined to deceive her
     C majorC         FF
He's the wrong kind of paradise
      C majorC           D MajorD
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
         G+G      C majorC G+G D MajorD
That boy's just a Walkaway Joe

Instrumental Break:
A minorAm E minorEm C majorC FF
A minorAm E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
A minorAm G+G  G+G

G+G
Somewhere in a roadside motel room
G+G
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
  E minorEm
And reaches for his arm
           C majorC
But she'll just keep reaching on

Bridge:
    D MajorD
For the cold hard truth
 A minorAm     G+G   C majorC D MajorD
Revealed what it had known

Chorus:
            G+G
And that boy's just a Walkaway Joe
               E minorEm
Born to be a leaver tell ya from the word go
E minorEm
Destined to deceive her
     C majorC         FF
He's the wrong kind of paradise
      C majorC           D MajorD
She's gonna know it in a matter of time
         G+G      D/F#D/F# E minorEm
That boy's just a Walkaway Joe

Outro:
E minorEm
Ooooh yeah
E minorEm   D/F#D/F#   G+G      G+G D/F#D/F# E minorEm
All he was was a Walkaway Joe
    E minorEm    E minorEm D/F#D/F# G+G
Ooooh oooohoooh
G+G          G+G D/F#D/F# E minorEm
He was a Walkaway Joe

E minorEm D/F#D/F#

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