(audience clapping) (gentle piano)
♪ Mama told her baby girl take it real slow ♪
♪ Girl told her mama, hey I really gotta go ♪
♪ He's waiting in the car ♪
♪ And mama said girl you won't get far ♪
♪ Thus are the dreams of an average Jane ♪
♪ 90 miles an hour down the lovers lane ♪
♪ On a tank of dreams ♪
♪ Oh if she could have only seen ♪
♪ But fate's got cards that it don't wanna 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 ♪
♪ 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 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 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 matter of time ♪
♪ That boy's just a walkaway Joe ♪
(instrumental interlude playing)
♪ 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 reaching on ♪
♪ For the cold hard truth revealed they had known ♪
(audience cheers)
♪ 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 ♪
♪ But it was just another lesson in life ♪
♪ That boy's just a walkaway Joe ♪
♪ Mm yeah ♪
♪ All he was was a walkaway Joe ♪
♪ Ooh ooh ♪
♪ Oh walkaway Joe ♪
♪ He was a walkaway Joe ♪
♪ La da da da da da da ♪
(soft piano)
(audience cheers)