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Joan Baez - San Francisco Mabel Joy Lyrics

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  • His daddy was a simple man, just a red dirt Georgia farmer
  • And his momma spent her young live havin kids and balin hay
  • He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander
  • So he hopped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.
  • Lord, the cold nights had no pity on a Waycross, Georgia farm boy
  • Most days he went hungry then the summer came
  • He met a girl known on the strip as San Franciscos Mabel Joy
  • Destitutions child born of an L.A. street called "Shame"
  • Growin up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
  • Laughter found their mornings brought meaning to his life
  • Yes the night before she left sleep came and left that
  • Waycross, Georgia boy with dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife
  • Sonday morning found him standin neath the red light at her door
  • When a right cross sent him reelin put him face down on the floor
  • In place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
  • Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red but sunny, youre still green"
  • He turned twenty-one in a grey rock fedral prison
  • The old judge had no mercy for a Waycross, Georgia boy
  • Starin at those four grey walls in silence he would listen
  • To that midnight freight he knew would take him back to Mabel Joy
  • Sunday morning found him standin neath the red light at her door
  • With a bullet in his side, he cried, "Have you seen Mabel Joy?"
  • Stunned and shaken someone said, "Why shes not here no more
  • She left this house four years today, they say shes lookin for some Georgia farm boy."
  • Mickey Newbury
  • Copyright 1969 by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc.
  • BMI 4:23

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