San Francisco Mabel Joy

San Francisco Mabel Joy easy guitar chords by John Denver

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  • Verse 1
    His 
    Daddy 
    was 
    simple 
    man, 

    just 
    a red 
    dirt 
    Georgia 
    farm
    er 

    And 
    his 
    Momma 
    spent 
    her 
    young 

    life 
    having 
    kids 
    and baling 
    hay 

    He 
    had 
    fifteen 
    years 
    and 

    an ache 
    in
    side 
    to 
    wander 

    So 
    he 
    hopped 
    a freight 
    in 
    Way 

    cross 
    and 
    wound 
    up 
    in 
    L.A. 

    Verse 2
    Lord, 
    the 
    cold 
    nights 
    had 
    no 
    pity 
    on a 
    Way 
    cross, 

    Georgia 
    farm 
    boy 

    Most 
    days 
    he 
    went 
    hungry, 

    then 
    the summer 
    came 

    He 
    met 
    a girl 
    known 
    on 
    the strip 
    as San 

    Francisco's 
    Mabel 
    Joy 

    Destitutions child 
    born 
    of 
    an 

    L.A. street 
    called 
    Shame 


    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
    Sunday 
    morning 
    found 
    him 
    standing 

    neath 
    the red 
    light 
    at 
    her 
    door 

    When a 
    right 
    cross 
    sent 
    him 
    reeling, 

    put him 
    face 
    down 
    on 
    the floor 

    In 
    place 
    of 
    Mabel 
    Joy 
    he 
    found 

    merchant 
    mad 
    mar
    ine 

    Who growled, 
    your 
    Georgia 
    neck 
    is 
    red 
    but 
    sonny, 

    you're 
    still 
    green 


    Verse 5
    He 
    turned 
    twenty-one 
    in 
    in a 

    gray 
    rock 
    federal 
    prison 

    The 
    old 
    judge 
    had 
    no 
    mercy 
    for 
    a Way 
    cross, 

    Georgia 
    boy 

    Staring 
    at 
    those 
    four 
    gray 
    walls 
    in 

    silence 
    he 
    would listen 

    To that 
    midnight 
    freight 
    he 
    knew 
    would 

    take 
    him 
    back 
    to 
    Mabel 
    Joy 

    Verse 6

    Sunday 
    morning 
    found 
    him 
    standing 

    'neath 
    the 
    red 
    light 
    at 
    her 
    door 

    With a 
    bullet 
    in 
    his 
    side, 
    he 
    cried, 

    Have 
    you 
    seen 
    Mabel 
    Joy? 

    Stunned 
    and shaken 
    someone 
    said, 

    why, 
    she's 
    not 
    here 
    no 
    more 

    She 
    left 
    this 
    house 
    four 
    years 
    today, 

    they 
    say 
    she's 
    looking 
    for 
    some 
    Georgia 
    farm 
    boy 

    Outro 1

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