"Set 'Em Up Joe" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vern Gosdin.
[1] Gosdin wrote the song with Dean Dillon, Buddy Cannon and Hank Cochran.
The song was a tribute to country music legend Ernest Tubb.
The narrator is bereft that his partner has left him and takes to playing "Walking the Floor Over You" on the jukebox at the bar.
The lyrics reference other famed country stars like Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams Sr.