Key: D major•
Verse 1
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just a red dirt Georgia farmer
And his Momma spent her young
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an ache inside to wander
So he hopped a freight in Way
Verse 2
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G
Lord, the cold nights had no pity on a Way cross,
Most days he went hungry,
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G
He met a girl known on the strip as San
L.A. street called Shame
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Verse 3
Laughter found their mornings
With dreams of Georgia cotton
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and a California wife
Verse 4
When a right cross sent him reeling,
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Who growled, your Georgia neck is red but sonny,
you're still green
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Verse 5
gray rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy for a Way cross,
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silence he would listen
To that midnight freight he knew would
Verse 6
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With a bullet in his side, he cried,
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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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G A
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