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San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by 
John Denver 
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Key: D major•BPM: 120
Verse 1
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His Daddy was a simple man,
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D
just a red dirt Georgia farmer
And his Momma spent her young
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life having kids and baling hay
D
He had fifteen years and
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D
an ache inside to wander
So he hopped a freight in Way
A
cross and wound up in L.A.
Verse 2
D
G
Lord, the cold nights had no pity on a Way cross,
D
Georgia farm boy
Most days he went hungry,
A
then the summer came
D
G
He met a girl known on the strip as San
D
Francisco's Mabel Joy
A
Destitutions child born of an
L.A. street called Shame
D
Verse 3
G
Growing up came quietly in the
D
arms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found their mornings
A
brought meaning to his life
G
Yes, the night before she left sleep came
D
and left that Way cross, Georgia boy
With dreams of Georgia cotton
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D
and a California wife
Verse 4
G
Sunday morning found him standing
D
neath the red light at her door
When a right cross sent him reeling,
A
put him face down on the floor
G
In place of Mabel Joy he found a
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merchant mad marine
A
Who growled, your Georgia neck is red but sonny,
you're still green
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Verse 5
D
He turned twenty-one in in a
gray rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy for a Way cross,
A
Georgia boy
D
Staring at those four gray walls in
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D
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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G
Sunday morning found him standing
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'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 looking for some Georgia farm boy
Outro 1
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