Joe

Up on the Newport Ridge

It's there that I lived

With my husband Joe and a couple of kids

He worked the factory by day

And the fields by night

'Till they closed them both a year ago July

They came to take it all away without a how do you do

The sheriff just walked in one day

Said now Joe, you're through

Joe just caved in, he took the kids and he went

But he left his gun and they better not come again

Now Joe sends some money

And sometimes he sends his love

With a why don't you, what is done is done

Well, me and Joe weren't much

But we was what we was

And when times got tough you know that seemed enough

They tried to take it all away without a how do you do

The sheriff just walked in one day

Said now Joe, you're through

Joe just caved in, he took the kids and he went

But he left his gun and they better not come again

And sometimes at twilight, I sit with my pipe

Look down the lane as the cars go slowly by

Even people I know, they don't come in to say hello

To the crazy woman living out on the line

But they tried to take it away without a how do you do

The sheriff just walked in one day

Said now Joe, you're through

Joe just gave in, he took the kids and he went

But he left his gun and they better not come again

But he left his gun and they better not come again