Josie
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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)