[00:08.83]Momma told her baby' girl take it real slow
[00:13.01]Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
[00:16.82]He's waitin' in the car
[00:19.07]
[00:20.19]Momma said girl you won't get far
[00:23.44]
[00:25.93]Thus are the dreams of an average Jane
[00:30.11]Ninety miles an hour down a lovers lane
[00:33.79]
[00:34.36]On a tank of dreams
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[00:37.55]Oh if she could've only seen
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[00:42.70]But fate's got cards that it don't want to show
[00:47.82]
[00:49.94]And that boy's just a walkaway Joe
[00:53.50]Born to be a leaver
[00:55.24]Tell you from the word go' destined to deceive her
[00:59.92]He's a wrong kinda paradise
[01:02.36]
[01:03.54]She's gonna know it in a matter of time
[01:07.10]That boy's just a walkaway Joe
[01:09.97]
[01:16.71]Now just a little while into Abilene
[01:20.45]
[01:21.08]Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
[01:24.95]She's waitin' in the car
[01:27.32]
[01:28.50]Underneath the Texaco star
[01:31.69]
[01:33.37]She only wanted love didn't bargain for this
[01:37.31]
[01:37.86]She can't help but love him for the way he is
[01:41.79]She's only seventeen
[01:44.10]
[01:45.29]And there ain't no reasoning
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[01:50.03]So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go
[01:55.34]
[01:57.53]Cause that boy's just a walkaway Joe
[02:00.55]
[02:01.11]Born to be a leaver
[02:02.79]Tell you from the word go' destined to deceive her
[02:07.20]He's a wrong kinda paradise
[02:09.97]
[02:10.96]She's gonna know it in a matter of time
[02:14.52]That boy's just a walkaway Joe
[02:17.39]
[02:47.17]Somewhere in a roadside motel room
[02:51.11]Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon
[02:55.23]And reaches for his arm
[02:57.53]
[02:58.73]But she'll just keep reachin' on
[03:01.97]
[03:03.41]For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known
[03:08.84]
[03:13.27]That boy's just a walkaway Joe
[03:16.53]Born to be a leaver
[03:18.29]Tell you from the word go' destined to deceive her
[03:23.14]He's a wrong kinda paradise
[03:25.83]But it was just another lesson in life
[03:30.07]That boy was a Walkaway Joe
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[03:38.82]All she wanna just a walkaway Joe
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[03:43.35]Wuu Walkaway Joe
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[03:51.79]You was a walkaway Joe
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