Joshua

Well a good way down the rail-road track
 There was this little old run down shack
 And in it lived a man I'd never seen...
 Folk said he was a mean and a vicious man
 And you'd better not set foot on his land
 But I didn't think nobody could be that mean
 So I took me out walking down the rail-road track
 I was gonna go down to that little old shack
 And just find out if all them things I'd heard was true
 There was a big black dog laying out in the yard
 And it growled at me and I swallowed hard
 And I heard somebody say, "Well, who are you?"
 Oh, and there he stood in the door of that shack
 And his beard and his hair was long and black
 And he was the biggest man I ever seen
 When he spoke his voice was low 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 place"
 And I saw a smile come across his face
 So, I smiled back and I told him who I was
 He said "Come on in, pull you up a chair
 You might as well since you're already here"
 And he said, "You can call me, Joshua"
 Joshua, Joshua, what you doing living here all alone?
 Joshua, Joshua, ain't you got nobody to call your own?
 No, no, no, no
 
 We talked 'til the sun was clean out of sight
 And we still talkin' when it come daylight
 There was just so much we had to say
 I spent my life in an orphans home
 And just like him, I was all alone
 So I said, "Yeah", when he asked if I'd stay
 Oh, we grew close as time went on
 And that little ole shack it was a happy home
 And we just couldn't help but fall in love
 That big black dog and that little ole shack
 Sitting down by the railroad track
 It's plenty good enough for me and Joshua
 Joshua, Joshua, why you're just what I've been a looking for
 Joshua, Joshua, you aint gonna be lonesome anymore
 No, no
 Yodel-ee-oh-le-dee-le-dee
 Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
 Me and Joshua
 Me and Joshua
 Me and Joshua
 Me and Joshua