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	E
	Joshua was an old man

his beard like mountain snow

	A	E
and when	I was a boy we'd have jam ses	sions

I'd sneak off to old Sharptop

with my guitar I would go

	A
when I	should have been at school

	E
learnin' my	lessons

	B
and he'd	sip a little moonshine

	A
and I'd	smoke a corncob pipe

	B	A
and we'd	pick all day until our fingers	bled

	B
and	right around supper time

	A
I'd	run home in the night

	B	A	E
	just in time to get a whippin' from my	Dad

my friend joshua tells me

that picking wont pay the rent

well i set out to prove him wrong in time

I dont guess i can recall

all the hours that i spent

just beating on that old black top of mine

me and my friend joshua lord

we must have played them all

and i got to where i could put the old man to shame

i dont guess it ever seemed to bother josh at all

he still loved to pick 'em just the same

	E	A
oh way	back when

	E	A
he was	65 and I was 10

	E	A
and I will never b	e as free again

	E	A	E
oh way	back when

the summer flew by quickly

and Josh and I spent our time

writing words to songs from memories of his past

he'd tell me bout the way it was

and I'd find the perfect rhyme

and I couldn't believe how we wrote our songs so fast

I never knew an old man

could be so full of life

the love we had was so hard to explain

and I remember how the tears fell when he spoke of his late wife

and I'd give him my 6-string to ease his pain

oh way back when

he was 65 and I was 10

and I will never be as free again

oh way back when

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and then in late November

I knocked on his cabin door

I knocked and knocked but Joshua never came

and I still remember

how he layed there on the floor

and I went home a-cryin' in the rain

oh way back when

he was 65 and I was 10

and I will never be as free again

oh way back when

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