San Francisco Mabel Joy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
Lord, [G]his Daddy was an honest man,
just a [C]red dirt Georgia [G]farmer
His momma lived her short life
having kids and baling [D]hay
[G]He had fifteen years and an
[C]ache inside to [G]wander
So he hop a freight at Waycross and
[D]wound up [G]in L.A.

[Verse 2]
Well the [G]cold nights had no pity on that
[C]Waycross Georgia far[G]m boy
Most days he went hungry,
then the summer [D]came
He [G]met a girl known on the strip,
[C]San Francisco's [G]Mabel Joy
Destitution's child born [D]on an L.A.
street [G]called Shame

[Verse 3]
[C]
Growing up came quietly in the
arms of Mabel [G]Joy
Laughter found their mornings to
be the meaning to his [D]life
Now the [C]night before she left
Sleep came and left that
[G]Waycross country boy
With dreams of Georgia cotton
and a [D]California [G]wife

[Verse 4]
Sunday [C]morning found him standing
'neath the red light at her [G]door
A right cross sent him reeling put
him face down on the [D]floor
[C]In place of Mabel Joy,
he found a merchant mad mar[G]ine
Growled, 'Your Georgia neck is red,
[F]Sonny you[C]'re sti[D]ll gre[G]en'

[Verse 5]
So he turned [G]twenty- one in a
[C]gray rock federal [G]prison
That old judge had no mercy on that
Waycross Geor[D]gia boy
[G]Staring at those four gray walls in [C]silence,
learning, [G]listen
Midnight freight he knew could take
him [F]back to Mabel [C]Joy
[D]

[Verse 6]
Sunday [C]morning found him lying
'neath the red light at her [G]door
With a bullet in his side, he cried,
"Have you seen Mabel [D]Joy?"
[C]Stunned and shaken someone said,
"Son, she don't live [G]here no more"
Nor she left this house four years today,
[F]they say she[C]'s looking for[D]
Some Georgia [C]farm boy

[Outro 1]
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