Joshua Lyrics - The Essential Dolly Parton, Vol. 2 - Dolly Parton

Well a good way down the rail-road track, 

There was this little old run down shack 

And in it lived a man I'd never se-e-e-een 

Folk said he was a mean and a vicious man 

And you'd better not set foot on his land 

But I didn't think nobody could be that mean 

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So I took me out walking down the rail-road track 

I was gonna go down to that little old shack 

An' just find out if all them things I'd heard was true 

There was a big black dog laying out in the yard 

And he growled at me and I swallowed hard 

And I heard somebody say" well, who are you?" 

Ooh and there he stood in the door of that shack 

And his beard and his hair was long and black 

And he was the biggest man I ever seen 

when he spoke his voice was low and deep 

but he just didnt frighten me 

cause somehow i just knew he wasnt mean 

he said " what yuh doing snooping round my place" 

and i saw a smile come across his face 

so i smiled back and i told him who i was 

He said " come on in, pull you up a chair, 

You might as well since you're already here" 

And he said " you can call me joshua" 

joshua joshua what you doing living here all alone 

joshua joshua aint you got nobody to call your own 

no no no no 

we talked till the sun was clean out of sight 

and we still talked when it come daylight 

there was just so much we had to say 

i spent my life in an orphans home 

and just like him i was all alone 

so i said"yeah" when he asked if i'd stay 

ooh we grew close as time went on 

and that little ole shack it was a happy home 

and we just couldn't help but fall in love 

that big black dog and that little ole shack 

sitting down by the railroad track 

its plenty good enough for me and joshua 

joshua joshua why your just what i've been a looking for 

joshua joshua you aint gonna be lonesome anymore 

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me and joshua 

me and joshua 

me and joshua