Shawn Mullins - Joshua lyrics

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 dor 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