San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by Joan Baez
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Verse 1
(G major) His daddy was a simple man,
(C major) just a red dirt Georgia farmer (G major) (D major)
And his (G major) momma spent her young
live havin´ kids and (D major) balin´ hay
(G major) He had fifteen years and an
(C major) ache inside to wander (G major)
(D major) So he hopped a freight (G major) in Waycross and
(D major) wound up in (G major) L.A.
Lord, (D major) the cold
Verse 2
(G major) nights had no pity on (C major) a
Waycross, Georgia farm (G major) boy (D major)
(G major) Most days he went hungry
then the summer came (D major)
(G major) He met a girl known on the strip as (C major) San Francis
(G major) co´s Mabel Joy (D major) (G major)
Destitution´s child born of an (D major) L.A. street
called "Shame"
(G major)
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Verse 3
(C major)
Growin´ up came quietly in
the arms of Mabel Joy (G major) (D major)
(G major) Laughter found (D major) their (G major) mornings
brought meaning to his (D major) life
Yes the night (C major) before she left sleep
came and left that
Waycross, Georgia (G major) boy with dreams of Georgia
cotton and a (D major) California wife
(G major)
Verse 4
(C major) Sonday morning found him
standin´ ´neath the red light at her door (G major)
When a right cross sent him reelin´ put
him face (F major) down on the (D major) floor
In (C major) place of Mabel Joy he found
a merchant mad mar (G major) ine
Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red but sunny, (F major)
you´re still (D major) green"
Verse 5
(G major)
He turned twenty-one in in a
(C major) grey rock fed (G major) ´ral prison
The old judge had no mercy for a
Waycross, Georgia (D major) boy (G major)
Starin´ at those four grey walls
(C major) in silence he would listen (G major)
To that midnight freight he knew would
take him (F major) back to Mabel (D major) Joy
Verse 6
(C major) Sunday morning´ found him
standin´ ´neath the red light at her door (G major)
With a bullet in his side, he cried,
"Have you (F major) seen Mabel (D major) Joy?"
(C major) Stunned and shaken someone said,
"Why she´s not here no (G major) more
She left this house four years today,
(F major) they say (D major) she´s lookin´ for some Georgia farm (C major) boy"
(G major)
San Francisco Mabel Joy
Joan Baez
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