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San Francisco Mabel Joy by Joan Baez
San Francisco Mabel Joy
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:G
Capo:no capo
[Verse 1]
G C G
Lord His daddy was an honest man, just a red dirt Georgia farmer
G D
And his mama lived her short life having kids and bailing hay
G C G
He had fifteen years and he ached inside to wander
G D G
So he jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.
[Verse 2]
G C G
The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy
G D
Most days he went hungry, and then the summer came
G C G
He met a girl known on the strip as San Franciscos Mabel Joy
G D G
Destitutions child born of an L.A. street called shame
[Verse 3]
C G
Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
G D
Laughter found their mornings, brought a meaning to his life
C G
And the night before she left, sleep came and left that Waycross country boy
G D G
With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wine
[Verse 4]
C G
Sunday morning found him standing beneath the red light at her door
G F D
When a right cross sent him reeling put him face down on the floor
C G
And in place of his Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
G F D
Who growled "Your Georgia neck is red, but sonny you're still green"
[Verse 5]
G G7 C G
He turned twenty-one in a grey rock federal prison
G D
The old judge had no mercy on that Waycross country boy
G C G
Staring at those four grey walls in silence,he would listen
G F D
To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy
[Verse 6]
C G
Sunday morning found him lyin' 'neath the red light at her door
G F D
With a bullet in his side he cried, "Have you seen Mabel Joy
C G
Stunned and shaken someone said "Son she don't live here no more.
G F D
She left this house four years today, they say she's looking for
C G
Some Georgia farm boy".
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