Joshua Lyrics - The First Ten Years - Shawn Mullins

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