C 
Momma told her baby, girl take it real slow 
 
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go 
      Dm             F 
He's waitin' in the car 
            Dm                 F    G 
Momma said girl you won't get far 
 C    
Thus are the dreams of an average Jane 
 
Ninety miles an hour down  a lovers lane 
      Dm        F                      Dm    F 
On a tank of dreams Oh if she could've only seen 
      G                   F                       G 
But fate's got cards that it don't want to show  And that boy's just 

Refr?o -------------
   F        C 
A walkaway Joe  Born to be a leaver 
 
Tell you from the word go, destined to deceive her  
         F               Bb                 
He's a wrong kinda parad-ise  
                    C                      G 
1.& 2.)She's gonna know it in a matter of time 

3.)    But it was just another lesson in  life
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      F             G      C 
That boy's just a walkway Joe 
C 
Now just a little while into Abilene 
C 
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean 
       Dm             F                  Dm     F     G 
She's waitin' in the car Underneath the Texaco star 
C 
She only wanted love didn't bargain for this 
C 
She can't help but love him for the way he is.  
       Dm         F                     Dm     F      
She's only seventeen And there ain't no reasoning 
G                            F                 G 
So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go  Cause that boy's just 
 
go to chorus, to lead, to third verse 
C 
Somewhere in a roadside motel room  
C 
Alone in the silence she wakes up too soon 
      Dm             F                         Dm     F 
And reaches for his arm But she'll just keep reachin' on 
G                          F                         G 
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known  That boy's just  
 
go to chorus.   
 
Ending: 
 
Mmmm yeah  Alkl he was a walkaway Joe   ooooh  walkaway Joe  Walkaway Joe 
Mmmmmm