Joshua

Joshua was an old man

His beard like mountain snow

And when I was a boy we'd have jam sessions

I'd sneak off to old sharptop

With my guitar I would go

When I should have been at school

Learnin' my lesson

And I'd sip a little moonshine

And I'd smoke a corncob pipe

And we'd pick all day until our fingers bled

And right around supper time

I'd run home in the night

Just in time to get a whippin' from my dad

Oh way back when

He was 65 and I was 10

And I will never be as free again

Oh way back when

The summer flew by quickly

And josh and I spent out time

Writing words to songs from memories of his past

He'd tell me bout the way it was

And I'd find the perfect rhyme

And I couldn't believe how we wrote our songs so fast

I never knew an old man

Could be so full of life

The love we had was so hard to explain

And I remember how the tears fell when he spoke of his late wife

And I'd give him my 6-string to ease his pain

Oh way back when

He was 65 and I was 10

And I will never be as free again

Oh way back when

And then in late november

I knocked on his cabin door

I knocked and knocked but joshua never came

And I still remember

How he layed there on the floor

And I went home cryin' in the rain

Oh way back when

He was 65 and I was 10

And I will never be as free again

Oh way back when

Oh way back when

Oh way back when