Ol' Dirty Joe (Remastered)

[Verse 1] Down by the tracks where the wild weeds grow, Lives a man they call Ol' Dirty Joe. Shirt half-torn, boots caked in mud, Hands like leather, stained with blood. He’s got a laugh like gravel and a voice like a crow, Everyone’s got a tale 'bout Ol' Dirty Joe. [Chorus] Ol' Dirty Joe, Ol' Dirty Joe, Nobody knows where he’ll go. Whiskey in his veins, the river’s his home, Just a ghost in the wind, Ol' Dirty Joe. [Verse 2] He once had a love, or so they say, But she packed her bags and ran away. Left him with a heart full of stone and ash, A memory buried in the train yard trash. Now he’s a shadow of a man in the undertow, Living on the edge, Ol' Dirty Joe. [Prechorus] Some say he’s cursed, some say he’s free, Just a man lost in his own history. [Chorus] Ol' Dirty Joe, Ol' Dirty Joe, Nobody knows where he’ll go. Whiskey in his veins, the river’s his home, Just a ghost in the wind, Ol' Dirty Joe. [Bridge] One stormy night, the river did rise, Took Ol' Dirty Joe with the lightning skies. Now the tracks are quiet, his fire gone cold, But the stories live on, the legend grows old.