More Joe

["Combs, Steve" <SteveSea>]

Woops, forgot to give my source...

http://www.heyjoe.org <http://www.heyjoe.org/>



Stevie Sea



In 1962, William Moses Roberts Jr. copyrighted the song entitled "Hey
Joe". Several things about this "Hey Joe" have led people to question
whether Roberts really wrote it. Because it draws on so many
well-established song conventions, the song seems considerably older
than the date of the copyright. And some observers claim that Roberts
has not been consistent in explaining how he wrote the song.





Hey Joe - Lyrics copyrighted by Billy Roberts 1962

Hey Joe, where you goin' with that money in your hand?
Hey Joe, where you goin' with that money in your hand?
Chasin' my woman, she run off with another man.

Goin downtown, buy me a Forty Four.
Goin downtown, buy me a Forty Four.
When I get through that woman won't run no more.

Hey Joe, what are you gonna do?
Hey Joe, what are you gonna do?
Take my pistol, and kill her before I'm through

Hey Joe, I heard you shot your woman dead.
Hey Joe, I heard you shot your woman dead.
Yes I did, got both of them lying in that bed

Hey Joe, where do you think you'll go?
Hey Joe, do you think you'll go?
Leaving here think I'll go to Mexico.

Yes I'm going, going where a man can be free.
Yes I'm going, going where a man can be free.
'cause ain't no hangman puttin' no noose on me.