Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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a simple man just a red dirt Georgia farmer
And his mama spent her young life havin'
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kids and bailin' hay
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ache inside to wander
So he hopped a freight in
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Waycross and wound up in LA
Lord the cold nights had no pity on
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a Waycross Georgia farm boy
Most days he went hungry and then
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the summer came
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He met a girl known on the Strip as San
Destitution's child born of an
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LA street called Shame
Laughter found the mornings
With dreams of Georgia cotton
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an d a California wife
When a right cross sent him reelin'
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put him face down on the floor
Who groaned your Georgia neck is
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red but Sonny you're still green
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He turned twenty- one in a grey
The old judge had no mercy for a
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Waycross Georgia boy
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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
With a bullet in his side he cried
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have you seen Mabel Joy
She left this house four years today
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and they say she's lookin' for
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Some Georgia farm boy
Outro 1
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