Joshua

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 seen... 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 So I took me out walking down the rail-road track I was gonna go down to that little old shack And just find out if all them things I'd heard was true There was a big black dog laying out in the yard And it growled at me and I swallowed hard And I heard somebody say, "Well, who are you?" Oh, 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 didn't frighten me 'Cause somehow I just knew he wasn't mean He said, "What you 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, ain't you got nobody to call your own? No, no, no, no We talked 'til the sun was clean out of sight And we still talkin' 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 Oh, 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 It's plenty good enough for me and Joshua Joshua, Joshua, why you're just what I've been a looking for Joshua, Joshua, you aint gonna be lonesome anymore No, no Yodel-ee-oh-le-dee-le-dee Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa Me and Joshua Me and Joshua Me and Joshua Me and Joshua