Walkaway Joe chords by Trisha Yearwood (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: B

Walkaway Joe - Trisha Yearwood featuring Don Henley

Intro:
G    Am
G    Am

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

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

Bridge:
D
That fate's got cards
     Am       G     C  D
That it don't wanna show

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

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

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

Bridge:
          D
So she'll ride this ride
   Am     G      C D
As far as it can go

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

Instrumental Break:
Am  Em  C  F
Am  Em  C  D
Am  G   G

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

Bridge:
        D
For the cold hard truth
  Am          G      C D
Revealed what it had known

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

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

Em D/F#