Joshua Chords by Shawn Mullins | Songsterr Tabs with Rhythm

Capo 9th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

EJoshua was an old man

his beard like mountain snow

and when AI was a boy we'd have jam sesEsions

I'd sneak off to old Sharptop

with my guitar I would go

when I Ashould have been at school

learnin' my Elessons

and he'd Bsip a little moonshine

and I'd Asmoke a corncob pipe

and we'd Bpick all day until our fingers Abled

and Bright around supper time

I'd Arun home in the night

Bjust in time to get a whippin' from my ADad E

my friend joshua tells me

that picking wont pay the rent

well i set out to prove him wrong in time

I dont guess i can recall

all the hours that i spent

just beating on that old black top of mine

me and my friend joshua lord

we must have played them all

and i got to where i could put the old man to shame

i dont guess it ever seemed to bother josh at all

he still loved to pick 'em just the same

oh way Eback when A

he was E65 and I was 10 A

and I will never bEe as free again A

oh way Eback when A E

the summer flew by quickly

and Josh and I spent our 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

Instrumental bridge

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and then in late November

I knocked on his cabin door

I knocked and knocked but Joshua never came

and I still remember

how he layed there on the floor

and I went home a-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