Joshua Lyrics - Skeeter Davis

Well the good ways down the railroad track there was a little old rundown shack 

And in it lived a man I'd never seen 

Folks said he was a mean and vicious man and you better not set foot on his land 

But I didn't think nobody could be that mean 

So I took me a walking down the railroad track 

I was gonna go down to that little old shack 

And just find out if all them things I heard was true 

There was a big black dog a lying in the yard 

And he growled at me and I swallowed hard 

And I heard somebody say well who are you 

Oh there he stood in the door of his shack 

With beer in his hand and with hair long and black 

He was the biggest man I'd ever seen 

When he spoke his voice was low and mean 

But he just didn't frighten me cause somehow I just knew he wasn't mean 

He said what you doing snoopin' 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 and pull you up a chair 

You might as well cause you're already here and he said you call me Joshua 

Joshua Joshua what you doing living all alone 

Joshua Joshua ain't you got nobody to call your own 

We talked till the sun went out of sight 

And we was still talkin' when it turned daylight 

Cause there was just so much we had to say 

Now I'd spend my life in an orphan's home and just like him I was all alone 

So I said yeah when he asked me if I'd stay 

Well we grew closer as time went on and that little old shack was a happy home 

And we just couldn't help but fall in love 

And that big black dog and that little old shack 

A sittin' down there by the railroad track 

Was plenty good enough for me and Joshua 

Joshua Joshua why you're just what I been looking for 

Joshua Joshua we ain't gonna be lonely anymore (yodel) 

(It just sounds like Dolly doesn't it) 

It's just story of me and Joshua real love story me and Joshua me and Joshua