San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by Kris Kristofferson

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Lord, his Daddy was an honest man,
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just a red dirt Georgia farmer
His momma lived her short life
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having kids and baling hay
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He had fifteen years and an
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ache inside to wander
So he hop a freight at Waycross and
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wound up in L.A.

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Verse 2

Well the cold nights had no pity on that

Waycross Georgia farm boy

Most days he went hungry,

then the summer came

He met a girl known on the strip,

San Francisco's Mabel Joy

Destitution's child born on an L.A.

street called Shame

Verse 3
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Growing up came quietly in the
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arms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found their mornings to
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be the meaning to his life
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Now the night before she left
Sleep came and left that
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Waycross country boy
With dreams of Georgia cotton
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G 
and a California wife

Verse 4
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Sunday morning found him standing
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'neath the red light at her door
A right cross sent him reeling put
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him face down on the floor
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In place of Mabel Joy,
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he found a merchant mad marine
Growled, 'Your Georgia neck is red,
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C 
D 
G 
Sonny you're still green'

Verse 5
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So he turned twenty- one in a
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G 
gray rock federal prison
That old judge had no mercy on that
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Waycross Georgia boy
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C 
Staring at those four gray walls in silence,
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learning, listen
Midnight freight he knew could take
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C 
him back to Mabel Joy
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Verse 6
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Sunday morning found him lying
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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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"Son, she don't live here no more"
Nor she left this house four years today,
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they say she's looking for
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Some Georgia farm boy