Josie    (video)

 

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1. Just got a letter from Josie this morning,

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    had to read between the lines.

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    She was sitting all alone, gazing through her wooden blinds,

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    she folded up her hands and she was crying.

 

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2.      Wearing the same old mournful smile

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    for an old love, God knows where.

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    All the children, they laugh, at the old woman as she passes,

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    with old fashioned clothes and tape-mended glasses.

 

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Josie, Josie,        hold on for me,

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coming from California to be with you, Josie.

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The world holds no love for a driftin’ boy like me,

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travellin’ fast, on God’s wind, to be with you Josie.

 

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3.     Remember the garden you once walked,

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    to put your troubled mind at ease,

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    Well, it is gone now to buildings, they even took the cypress tree,

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    cinders take the place of fallin’ leaves.

 

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4.    We’d spent time of day talkin’,

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    you know I’d love to fix you tea,

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    I can tell you of people, all the places I’ve got to see,

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   Josie,       hold on please.

 

 

 

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Josie, Josie,        hold on for me,

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coming from California to be with you, Josie.

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The world holds no love for a driftin’ boy like me,

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travellin’ fast, on God’s wind, to be with you Josie.

 

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+  Josie, Josie, hold on for me ....

 

(orig, = capo 2nd)    (Dion)