Joshua Lyrics by Dolly Parton

0:23Well a good way down the railroad track

0:27There was this little old run down shack

0:28And in it lived a man I'd never seen

0:31Folk said, "he was a mean and a vicious man"

0:34And you'd better not set foot on his land

0:37But I didn't think nobody could be that mean

0:41So I took me out walking down the rail road track

0:43I was gonna go down to that little old shack

0:45And just find out if all them things I'd heard was true

0:49There was a big black dog laying out in the yard

0:51And he growled at me and I swallowed hard

0:54And I heard somebody say, "well, who are you?"

0:58Ooh and there he stood in the door of that shack

1:00And his beard and his hair was long and black

1:02And he was the biggest man I ever seen

1:06When he spoke his voice was low and deep

1:09But he just didn't frighten me

1:11Cause somehow I just knew he wasn't mean

1:15He said, "what yuh doing snooping round my place"

1:18And I saw a smile come across his face

1:20So I smiled back and I told him who I was

1:24He said, "come on in, pull you up a chair"

1:26You might as well since you're already here

1:29And he said, "you can call me Joshua"

1:32Joshua, Joshua what you doing living here all alone?

1:37Joshua, Joshua ain't you got nobody to call your own?

1:43No no no no

1:50We talked 'till the sun was clean out of sight

1:52And we still talked when it come daylight

1:55There was just so much we had to say

1:59I spent my life in an orphans home

2:01And just like him I was all alone

2:04So I said, "yeah" when he asked if I'd stay

2:08Ooh we grew close as time went on

2:10And that little ole shack it was a happy home

2:12And we just couldn't help but fall in love

2:16That big black dog and that little ole shack

2:19Sitting down by the railroad track

2:21Its plenty good enough for me and joshua

2:26Joshua, Joshua why your just what i've been a looking for?

2:30Joshua, Joshua you ain't gonna be lonesome anymore

2:37Oh no

2:39"Country yodelling"

2:47Me and joshua

2:49Me and joshua

2:53Me and joshua

3:01♪