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Mama told her baby, "Girl, take it real slow"
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Girl told her mama, "Hey, I really gotta go
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He's waitin' in the car"
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Mama said, "Girl, you won't get far"
[Verse 2]
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Thus are the dreams of an average Jane
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Ninety miles an hour down a lover's lane
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On a tank of dreams
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Oh, if she could have only seen
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That fates got cards that it don't wanna show
[Chorus]
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That boy's just a walkaway Joe
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Born to be a leaver, tell you from the word "go,"
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Destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise
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She's gonna know it in a matter of time, that boy's just a walkaway Joe
[Verse 3]
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Now just a little while into Abilene
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He pulls into a station and he robs it clean
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She's waitin' in the car
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Oh underneath the Texaco star
[Verse 4]
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She only wanted love, didn't bargain for this
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She can't help but love him for the way he is
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She's only seventeen
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And there ain't no reasoning
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So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go
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[Chorus]
B E
'Cause that boy's just a walkaway Joe
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Born to be a leaver, tell you from the word "go,"
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Destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise
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She's gonna know it in a matter of time, that boy's just a walkaway Joe
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[Verse 4]
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Somewhere in a roadside motel room
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Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon and reaches for his arms
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But she'll just keep reachin' on
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Before the cold hard truth revealed what it had known
[Chorus]
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That boy was just a walkaway Joe
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Born to be a leaver, tell you from the word "go,"
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Destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise
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But it was just another lesson in life, that boy's just a walkaway Joe
[Outro]
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All he was was a walkaway Joe
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Just a walkaway Joe
