San Francisco Mabel Joy
Key: GEnglish
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Lord His Gdaddy was an honest man Cjust a red dirt Georgia Gfarmer
And his Gmama lived her short life having kids and bailing Dhay
G He had fifteen years and he Cached inside to Gwander
So he Gjumped a freight in Waycross and Dwound up in GL.A.
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The Gcold nights had no pity on that CWaycross Georgia Gfarm boy
GMost days he went hungry and then the summer Dcame
GHe met a girl known on the strip as CSan Francisco's GMabel Joy
G Destitution's child born of an DL.A. street called Gshame
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CGrowing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel GJoy
GLaughter found their mornings brought a meaning to his Dlife
And the Cnight before she left sleep came and left that Waycross Gcountry boy
With Gdreams of Georgia cotton and a DCalifornia Gwine
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Sunday Cmorning found him standing beneath the red light at her Gdoor
When a Gright cross sent him reeling put him Fface down on the Dfloor
And in Cplace of his Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad Gmarine
Who Ggrowled "Your Georgia neck is red but Fsonny you're still Dgreen"
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G He turned twenty-one G7in a Cgrey rock federal Gprison
The Gold judge had no mercy on that Waycross country Dboy
GStaring at those four grey walls in Csilence he would Glisten
To the Gmidnight freight he knew could take him Fback to Mabel DJoy
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C Sunday morning found him lyin' 'neath the red light at her Gdoor
With a Gbullet in his side he cried "Have Fyou seen Mabel DJoy
C Stunned and shaken someone said "Son she don't live here no Gmore.
She Gleft this house four years today F they say she's looking Dfor
Some Georgia Cfarm boy". G