San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by
Gretchen Peters

N/A

Key: E major

Verse 1
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G G 
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Well, his daddy was an honest man
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Just a red dirt Georgia farmer
His mama lived her short life
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Havin' kids and bailin' hay
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He had fifteen years
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D D 
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And an aching side to wander
So he jumped a freight and
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way crossed
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Wound up in L .A.
Now the cold nights had no pity
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D D 
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On that way across Georgia, farm boy
Most days he went hungry
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Then the summer came
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He met a girl known on the Strip
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D D 
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San Francisco's Mabel Joy
Destitution's child
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Born on an L  .A. street
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called shame
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Growing up came quietly
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In the arms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found their mornings,
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it brought a meaning to his life
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On the night before she left, sleep came
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And left that way across country boy
With dreams of Georgia cotton
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D D 
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And a California wife
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Sunday morning found him standing
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Neath a red light at her door
Went a right cross and him reeling
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Put him face down on the floor
F#m F#m 2
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G G 
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In    place of Mabel Joy
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he found a merchant
Who growled, your Georgia neck is red
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A A 
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D D 
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But, sonny, you're still green
He turned twenty -one
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D D 
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In a grey rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy
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on that way -crossed country boy
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Staring at those four gray walls
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D D 
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In silence he would listen
To that midnight freight he knew
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G G 
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A A 
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could take him back to Mabel Joe
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G G 
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Sunday morning found him lying
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beneath the red light at her door
With a bullet in his side, he cried
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Have you seen Mabel Jones?
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Stunned and shaken, someone said
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Son, she don't live here no more
She left this house four years ago
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A A 
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They say she's looking for some Georgia
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A A 
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farmer
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