Walkaway Joe

Written by Vincent Melamed and Greg W. Barnhill 

Performed by Trisha Yearwood

Mama told her baby girl take it real slow 

Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go 

He's waiting in the car 

Mama said girl you won't get far 

Thus are the dreams of an average Jane 

Ninety miles an hour down a lovers lane 

On a tank of dreams 

Oh if she could've only seen 

That fate's got cards that it don't want to show, and

That boy's just a walkaway Joe 

Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go 

Destined to deceive her 

He's the wrong kind of paradise 

She's gonna know it in a matter of time 

That boy's just a walkaway Joe 

Now just a little while into Abilene 

He pulls into a station and he robs it clean 

She's waiting in the car, oh, underneath the Texaco star 

She only wanted love didn't bargain for this 

She can't help but love him for the way he his 

She's only seventeen and there ain't no reasoning 

So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go, 'cause

That boy's just a walkaway Joe 

Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go 

Destined to deceive her 

He's the wrong kind of paradise 

She's gonna know it in a matter of time 

That boy's just a walkaway Joe 

Somewhere in a roadside motel room

Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon 

And reaches for his arms 

But she'll just keep reaching on 

For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known 

That boy's just a walk away Joe 

Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go 

Destined to deceive her He's the wrong kind of paradise 

But it was just another lesson in life

That boy was a walkaway Joe 

Mmm yeah, 

All he was was a walkaway Joe Oh, (Walkaway Joe) 

He was a walkaway Joe Mmm