Joshua Lyrics

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