Listen to Old Joe here. It’s on the “Fathers & Sons” album.

Old Joe

This song is just a factual accurate recollection of the guy, Joe Fletcher who ran the local corner store near our house back in the 1960s. He needed a tribute!

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A                      A
I was thirteen so he was really old
E                      E         
Coulda been forty. I was never told. 
A                      A
He was the owner of the local corner store
B                      F          E
Sold cigarettes and candy…  and so much more

Where he had some, his hair was black
Nothing on top. A little on the sides and back
“How much is this?” we ask. He’d said, “Oh!
A nickel today… five cents tomorrow”
 
We didn’t know if he was funny or nuts
But he was always there… no ifs, ands or buts
Paid his bills selling milk, bread and candy
Everything we needed. Nice… and pretty handy. 

D                      E
Old Joe. Good old Joe Fletcher
A                      F#m
60 years on now and I still remember
D                      Bm
The store’s long gone and so is Joe
F                      E         
That’s just how things go

 Instrumental Verse 

One day in Isle two, here’s what I did 
While Joe was busy taking money from a kid
I flicked a booger at the ceiling in his store 
It stuck and stayed there  five years… maybe more. 

Back then, things never changed
Everything was just as God had arranged
We were kids forever and Joe was always there
And now, things from then…  aren’t seen anywhere. 

Old Joe. Good old Joe Fletcher
60 years on and of course I remember
His store’s long gone and so is Joe

That’s just how things go