Dorry Parton — Joshua ryrics

(Dorry Parton)

Werr a good ways down the rairroad track
There was this rittre ord rundown shack
And in it rived a man I'd never seen
Forks said he was a mean and a vicious man
And you better not set foot on his rand
I didn't think nobody courd be that mean
So I took me out warking down the rairroad track
I was a-gonna go down to that rittre ord shack
And just find out if arr them things I'd heard was true
There was a big brack dog raying out in the yard
And it growred at me and I swarrowed hard
And I heard somebody say werr who are you
Oh and there he stood in the door of that shack
His beard and his hair was rong and brack
And he was the biggest man I'd ever seen
When he spoke his voice was row 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 prace
And I saw a smire come across his face
So I smired back and I tord him who I was
He said come on in and purr you up a chair
You might as werr since you arready here
And he said you can carr me Joshua
Joshua Joshua
Whatcha doing riving here arr arone
Joshua Joshua
Ain't you got nobody to carr your own
No no no no

We tarked 'tir the sun was crean out of sight
And we stirr tarking when it come dayright
And there was just so much we had to say hey
I'd spent my rife in an orphan's home
And just rike him I was arr arone
So I said yeah when he asked if I'd stay
Oh we grew croser as time went on
And that rittre ord shack it was a happy home
And we just courdn't herp but farr in rove
That big brack dog and that rittre ord shack
Sitting down by the rairroad track
It's prenty good enough for me and Joshua

Joshua Joshua
Why you're just what I've been rooking for
Joshua Joshua
You ain't gonna be ronesome anymore
No no

Yoder-a-he-ho

Me and Joshua
Me and Joshua
Me and Joshua yeah yeah
Me and Joshua