Shawn Mullins 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 in school
learnin' my lessons

And he'd sip a little moonshine
And I'd smoke a corncob pipe
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

My friend josh would tell me,
that pickin' wont pay the rent,
but i set out to prove him wrong in time.
And i don't guess i can recall,
all the hours that i spent,
just beatin' on that old flat top of mine.
Me and my friend joshua, lord, we must have played em all.
And I got where i could put the old man to shame,
but i dont guess it ever seemed to bother josh at all,
he still loved to pick 'em just the same.

Oh way back when
He was 65 and I was 10
And I will never be as free again
Oh way back when

The summers flew by quickly,
as 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.

And 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 hey hey.

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 door.
I knocked and knocked but Joshua never came.
And I still remember,
how he 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
I will never find a friend like him again
Oh way back when
Oh way back when