"Hey Joe" is a song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and been performed in many musical styles by hundreds of different artists. The lyrics are a back and forth conversation between "Joe", a man on the run and planning to escape to Mexico after shooting his unfaithful wife, and an apparent friend who is questioning him.

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