San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by John Denver

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Verse 1
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 (D major) His Daddy was a simple man,
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just a red  (G major) dirt Georgia farm (D major) er
And his Momma spent her young
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life having kids and baling hay  (A major) 
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 (D major) He had fifteen years and
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an ache  (G major) in (D major) side to wander
So he hopped a freight in Way
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cross and  (A major) wound up in L.A.

Verse 2
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Lord, the  (D major) cold nights had no pity on a  (G major) Way cross,
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Georgia farm  (D major) boy
Most days he went hungry,
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then the summer came  (A major) 
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 (D major) He met a girl known on the strip as San  (G major) 
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Francisco's  (D major) Mabel Joy
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Destitutions child born of an  (A major) 
L.A. street called Shame
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 (D major) 

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Verse 3

Growing 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 Way cross, Georgia boy

With dreams of Georgia cotton

and a California wife

Verse 4
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Sunday  (G major) morning found him standing
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neath the red light at her door  (D major) 
When a right cross sent him reeling,
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put him face down on the floor  (A major) 
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In  (G major) place of Mabel Joy he found a
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merchant mad mar (D major) ine
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Who growled, your Georgia neck is red but  (A major) sonny,
you're still green
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 (D major) 

Verse 5
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 (D major) He turned twenty-one in in a
gray rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy for a Way cross,
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Georgia boy  (A major) 
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Staring  (D major) at those four gray walls in
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silence  (G major) he  (D major) would listen
To that midnight freight he knew would
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take him back  (A major) to Mabel Joy

Verse 6
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 (A major) 
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Sunday  (G major) morning found him standing
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'neath the red light at her door  (D major) 
With a bullet in his side, he cried,
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Have  (A major) you seen Mabel Joy?
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 (G major) Stunned and shaken someone said,
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why, she's not here no  (D major) more
She left this house four years today,
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they  (A major) say she's looking for some Georgia farm boy