{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1736576,"song":"Joshua","artist":"Shawn Mullins","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11372038-joshua-chords-by-shawn-mullins/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1736576?type=chord","rating":4.6615,"votes":9,"content":"This is how I play it - I'm pretty sure the song's capo 9, but it's a bit tight for me.  \r\nI play it Capo on 4th fret, this sounds pretty good to me. Pretty sure it's in E as well.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nJoshua was an old man, his beard like mountain snow[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd when I was a boy we'd have jam sessions[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'd sneak off to old Sharptop, with my guitar I would go[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen I should have been at school, learnin' my lessons[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he'd sip a little moonshine[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I'd smoke a corncob pipe[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd we'd pick all day until our fingers bled[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd right around supper time[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI'd run home in the night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJust in time to get a whoppin' from my Dad[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy friend Joshua tells me that picking wont pay the rent[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell I set out to prove him wrong in time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI dont guess I can recall all the hours that I spent[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nJust beating on that old flat top of mine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  \r\nMe and my friend Joshua lord[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe must have played them all[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I got to where I could put the old man to shame[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI don't guess it ever seemed to bother Josh at all[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                    [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe still loved to pick 'em just the same[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n Oh,  way back when[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\n He was 65 and I was 10[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\n And I will never be as free again[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   Oh, way back when[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe summer flew by quickly and Josh and I spent our time[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWriting words to songs from memories of his past[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe'd tell me bout the way it was and I'd find the perfect rhyme[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I couldn't believe how we wrote our songs so fast[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI never knew an old man could be so full of life[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe love we had was so hard to explain[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I remember how the tears fell when he spoke of his late wife[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I'd give him my 6-string to ease his pain[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n Oh,  way back when[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\n He was 65 and I was 10[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\n And I will never be as free again[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   Oh, way back when[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nInstrumental Bridge (Solo): D, F, C, G, D, F, C, G\r\n\r\n\r\nAnd then in late November\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI knocked on his cabin door, I knocked and knocked but Joshua never came[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I still remember, how he layed there on the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I went home a-cryin' in the rain[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n Oh,  way back when[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\n He was 65 and I was 10[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\n And I will never be as free again[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   Oh, way back when[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   Oh, way back when[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\n   Oh, way back when[/tab]","plain_text":"This is how I play it - I'm pretty sure the song's capo 9, but it's a bit tight for me.  \nI play it Capo on 4th fret, this sounds pretty good to me. Pretty sure it's in E as well.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstrumental Bridge (Solo): D, F, C, G, D, F, C, G\n\n\nAnd then in late November","chords":["E","C","F","G","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}