Key: G major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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just a red dirt Georgia farmer
His momma lived her short life
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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.
Verse 2
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Waycross Georgia farm boy
Most days he went hungry,
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San Francisco's Mabel Joy
Verse 3
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Growing up came quietly in the
Laughter found their mornings to
Sleep came and left that
With dreams of Georgia cotton
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and a California wife
Verse 4
A right cross sent him reeling put
Growled, 'Your Georgia neck is red,
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Sonny you're still green'
Verse 5
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gray rock federal prison
That old judge had no mercy on that
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Staring at those four gray walls in silence,
Midnight freight he knew could take
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him back to Mabel Joy
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Verse 6
With a bullet in his side, he cried,
Nor she left this house four years today,
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they say she's looking for
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG D C F
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