Dolly Parton - Joshua lyrics
Dolly Parton [Dolly Rebecca Parton] Pittman Center, Tennessee, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Dolly Parton - Joshua lyrics]
There was this little old rundown shack
And in it lived a man I'd never seen
Folks said he was a mean and a vicious man
And you better not set foot on his land
I didn't think nobody could be that mean
So I took me out walking
Down the railroad track
I was a-going to 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
His beard and his hair was long and black
And he was the biggest man I'd ever seen
When he spoke his voice was low and deep
But he just didn't frighten me
Because somehow I just knew he wasn't mean
He said what you doing
Snooping around 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 and pull you up a chair
You might as well since you already here
And he said you can call me Joshua
Joshua Joshua
What you are doing living here all alone
Joshua Joshua
Have you got nobody to call your own
No no no no
We talked till the sun was clean out of sight
And we still talking when it come daylight
And there was just so much we had to say hey
I'd spent my life in an orphan's home
And just like him I was all alone
So I said yeah when he asked if I'd stay
Oh we grew closer as time went on
And that little old shack it was a happy home
And we just couldn't help but fall in love
That big black dog and that little old 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 looking for
Joshua Joshua
You are not going to be lonesome anymore
No no
Yodel-a he-ho me and Joshua
Me and Joshua me and Joshua yeah yeah
Me and Joshua