San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by
David Allan Coe
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Key: D major•
Verse 1
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My daddy was an honest man
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just a red dirt Georgia farm boy
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My mama spent her young life
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raisin' kids and bailin' hay
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Now I was just fifteen when I
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ached inside to wander
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So hopped a freight in Waycross and I
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Em
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rode it to LA
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I met a girl known on the Strip as San
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Francisco's Mabel Joy
Destitution's child born on an LA
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street called Shame
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The sleep came and left this little
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D

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Waycross country boy
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Mabel Joy was gone Lord I'd
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A
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never see her again
Growin' up came quietly in the
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arms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found the mornings
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brought the meaning to my life
I woke up one day Lord
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finding I was by myself
With dreams of Georgia cotton
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and a California wife
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Lord the cold nights had no pity on a
Waycross Georgia farm boy
Most days he went hungry and
then the summer came
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Sunday morning found me standin'
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neath the red light at her door
Right cross sent me reelin'
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put my face down on the floor
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In place of my Mabel Joy he found
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a merchant mad marine
Who said your Georgia neck is red but
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Bm
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A
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Sonny you're still green
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But I turned twenty one
in a grey rock Federal prison
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The judge had no mercy for this
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A
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D
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Waycross Georgia boy
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Sometimes at night in silence
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Lord I'd listen
That midnight freight to take
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me back to Mabel Joy
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The cold nights had no pity on this
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Waycross Georgia farm boy
Springtime turned to summer
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and then the winter came
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Starin' at those four grey walls in
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silence Lord I'd listen
Somewhere's in the distance to
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the whistle of a train
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Sunday morning found me lying
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neath the red light at her door
With a bullet in my side I cried
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have you seen Mabel Joy
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Stunned and shaken someone said
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son she don't live here anymore
She left this town ten years ago
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Bm
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I heard she's looking for
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Some Georgia farm boy
Outro 1
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