C5 F5 Josie walked down to the Holy Land With a dream of life and not one shekel in her hand Walking from a history none of us knew To lay the road for others to struggle through C5 F5 She saw him walking slowly across the desert land Coming back from 40 days in a strange land She held him , putting water on his burning lips Caressed his broken body with her fingertips G5 F5 He woke in the dawn to see her kneeling there Felt her hand caressing his matted hair Saw beyond her heart into her sacred eyes And knew this one would lead him to paradise to C5 F5 paradise C5 F5 C5 F5 When he became the chosen one the devil did deceive White magic that lies within the devil don't believe The tenderness of a woman's touch, the healing in her kiss Was lost by men too dead to know the holiness of this G5 F5 She walked into tell him he was the only man The one that held her sacred heart in his hand Please don't break it, love me tender, love me sweet I'll be your incarnation and your ecstasy your C5 F5 ecstasy C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 F5 C5 F5 Josie walked the street with the holy man Where she laid her softened cheek upon the leper's hand She gave her love to beggars, whores and thieves Tried to help him paint his masterpiece G5 F5 He woke in the dawn to see her kneeling there Felt her hand caressing his matted hair Saw beyond her heart into her sacred eyes And knew this one would lead him to paradise to C5 F5 paradise C5 F5 C5 F5 Josie 's been forgotten to all of us now The book that wrote about her was lost somehow She lost her name, her voice, her sacred heart She lost her man when his sweet heart was torn apart G5 F5 She walked in to tell him he was the only man The one that held her sacred heart in his hand Please don't break it, love me tender, love me sweet I'll be your incarnation and your ecstasy your C5 F5 ecstasy C5 F5
