San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by
Joan Baez

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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His daddy was a simple man,

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just a red dirt Georgia farmer

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And his momma spent her young

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live havin´ kids and balin´ hay

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He had fifteen years and an

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ache inside to wander

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So he hopped a freight in Waycross and

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wound up in L.A.

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Lord, the cold

Verse 2

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nights had no pity on a

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Waycross, Georgia farm boy

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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 as San Francis

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co´s Mabel Joy

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Destitution´s child born of an L.A. street

called "Shame"

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Verse 3

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Growin´ up came quietly in

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the arms of Mabel Joy

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Laughter found their mornings

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brought meaning to his life

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Yes the night before she left sleep

came and left that

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Waycross, Georgia boy with dreams of Georgia

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cotton and a California wife

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Verse 4

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Sonday morning found him

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standin´ ´neath the red light at her door

When a right cross sent him reelin´ put

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him face down on the floor

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In place of Mabel Joy he found

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a merchant mad marine

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Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red but sunny,

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you´re still green"

Verse 5

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He turned twenty-one in in a

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grey rock fed´ral prison

The old judge had no mercy for a

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Waycross, Georgia boy

Starin´ at those four grey walls

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in silence he would listen

To that midnight freight he knew would

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take him back to Mabel Joy

Verse 6

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Sunday morning´ found him

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standin´ ´neath the red light at her door

With a bullet in his side, he cried,

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"Have you seen Mabel Joy?"

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Stunned and shaken someone said,

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"Why she´s not here no more

She left this house four years today,

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they say she´s lookin´ for some Georgia farm boy"

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