Momma told her baby, girl take it real slow
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
He's waitin' in the car
Momma 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
But fate's got cards that it don't want to show And that boy's just
CHORUS:
A walkaway Joe Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
He's a wrong kinda parad-ise
1.& 2.)She's gonna know it in a matter of time
3.) But it was just another lesson in life
That boy's just a walkway Joe
Now just a little while into Abilene
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
She's waitin' in the car Underneath the Texaco star
She only wanted love didn't bargain for this
She can't help but love him for the way he is.
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
go to chorus, to lead, to third verse
Somewhere in a roadside motel room
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
And reaches for his arm But she'll just keep reachin' on
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known That boy's just
go to chorus.
Ending:
Mmmm yeah Alkl he was a walkaway Joe ooooh walkaway Joe Walkaway Joe
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
He's waitin' in the car
Momma 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
But fate's got cards that it don't want to show And that boy's just
CHORUS:
A walkaway Joe Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her
He's a wrong kinda parad-ise
1.& 2.)She's gonna know it in a matter of time
3.) But it was just another lesson in life
That boy's just a walkway Joe
Now just a little while into Abilene
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
She's waitin' in the car Underneath the Texaco star
She only wanted love didn't bargain for this
She can't help but love him for the way he is.
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
go to chorus, to lead, to third verse
Somewhere in a roadside motel room
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
And reaches for his arm But she'll just keep reachin' on
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known That boy's just
go to chorus.
Ending:
Mmmm yeah Alkl he was a walkaway Joe ooooh walkaway Joe Walkaway Joe