San Francisco Mabel Joy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]My daddy was an honest man[G]
just [D]a red dirt Georgia farm boy
My mama spent her young [A]life
[D]raisin' kids and bailin' [A]hay[D]
Now I was just [G]fifteen when I
ached in[D]side to wander
So hopped a freight [C]in Waycross and I
[Em]rode [D]it to [A]LA[Em][A][D]
I met a girl known on [G]the Strip as San
Francisco's Ma[D]bel Joy
Destitution's child born on an LA
street called [A]Shame[D]
The sleep came and [G]left this little
Waycross country [D]boy
Mabel Joy was gone [C]Lord I'd
never see [Em]her [A]again[G]
Growin' up came quietly in the
arms of Mabel [D]Joy
Laughter found the mornings
brought the meaning to my [A]life[G]
I woke up one day Lord
finding I was [D]by myself
With dreams of Georgia cotton
[A]and a California wife
Lord the [D]cold nights had no pity on a
Waycross Georgia farm boy
Most days he went hungry and
then the summer came
Sunday [G]morning found me standin'
neath the red light at her [D]door
Right cross sent me reelin'
put my face down on [A]the floor
In [G]place of my Mabel Joy he found
a merchant mad mar[D]ine
Who said your Georgia neck is red but
[C]Son[G]ny you're sti[Bm]ll gre[A]en[D]
But I turned twenty [G]one
in a grey rock Federal prison
[D]The judge had no [C]mercy for this
[Bm]Waycross Georgia boy[A][D]
Sometimes at [G]night in silence
Lord [D]I'd listen
That midnight freight to take
[A]me back to Mabel Joy[D]
The [G]cold nights had no pity on this
Waycross Georgia [D]farm boy
Springtime turned to summer
and then the winter [A]came
[G]Starin' at those four grey walls in
silence Lord I'd [D]listen
Somewhere's in the distance to
the whistle of [A]a train
Sunday [G]morning found me lying
neath the red light at her [D]door
With a bullet in my side I cried
[C]have you see[G]n Mabel Joy[A]
[G]Stunned and shaken someone said
son she don't live here [D]anymore
She left this town ten years ago
[C]I heard she[Bm]'s looking for[A]
Some Georgi[Em]a farm [G]boy

[Outro 1]
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