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 k** 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 gonna put no noose on me