DON HENLEY - Walkaway Joe lyrics

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Mama told her baby,<br>Girl, take it real slow.<br>Girl told her mama,<br>Hey, I really gotta go.<br>He's waitin' in the car.<br>Mama said,<br>Girl, you won't get far.<br><br>This is the story of an average jane,<br>Ninety miles an hour down a lover's lane<br>On a tank of dreams.<br>Oh, if she could have only seen.<br>But fates got plans that it don't wanna show 'cause. . .<br><br>That boy's just a walkaway joe,<br>Born to be a leaver.<br>Tell you from the word go,<br>Destined to deceive her.<br>He's the wrong kind of paradise.<br>She's gonna know it in a matter of time.<br>That boy's just a walkaway joe.<br><br>Just a little while into abilene,<br>He pulls into a station and he robs it clean.<br>She's waitin' in the car<br>Underneath the texaco star.<br><br>She only wanted love,<br>Never bargained for this.<br>She can't help but love him for the way he is.<br>She's only seventeen,<br>And there ain't no reasoning.<br>So she'll ride this ride<br>As far as it will go, but. . .<br><br>That boy's just a walkaway joe,<br>Born to be a leaver.<br>Tell you from the word go,<br>Destined to deceive her.<br>He's the wrong kind of paradise.<br>She's gonna know it in a matter of time.<br>That boy's just a walkaway joe.<br><br>Somewhere in a roadside motel room,<br>Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon<br>And reaches for his arms.<br>But she'll just keep reachin' on.<br>'cause the cold hard truth revealed<br>What it had known. . .<br><br>That boy's just a walkaway joe,<br>Born to be a leaver.<br>Tell you from the word go,<br>Destined to deceive her.<br>He's the wrong kind of paradise.<br>But it was just another lesson in life.<br>That boy's just a walkaway joe.<br><br>All he was was a walkaway joe.<br>Ooh, walkaway joe. . .<br>Ooh, he was a walkaway joe.<br>Ooh, walkaway joe. . .<br>Yes, he was a walkaway joe. . .