Tonalité : G major
Verse 1
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His daddy was a simple man,
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just a red dirt Georgia farmer
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And his momma spent her young
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live havin´ kids and balin´ hay
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He had fifteen years and an
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ache inside to wander
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So he hopped a freight in Waycross and
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wound up in L.A.
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Lord, the cold
Verse 2
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nights had no pity on a
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Waycross, Georgia farm boy
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Most days he went hungry
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then the summer came
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He met a girl known on the strip as San Francis
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co´s Mabel Joy
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Destitution´s child born of an L.A. street
called "Shame"
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Verse 3
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Growin´ up came quietly in
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the arms of Mabel Joy
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Laughter found their mornings
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brought meaning to his life
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Yes the night before she left sleep
came and left that
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Waycross, Georgia boy with dreams of Georgia
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cotton and a California wife
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Verse 4
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Sonday morning found him
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standin´ ´neath the red light at her door
When a right cross sent him reelin´ put
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him face down on the floor
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In place of Mabel Joy he found
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a merchant mad marine
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Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red but sunny,
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you´re still green"
Verse 5
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He turned twenty-one in in a
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grey rock fed´ral prison
The old judge had no mercy for a
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Waycross, Georgia boy
Starin´ at those four grey walls
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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
Verse 6
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Sunday morning´ found him
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standin´ ´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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"Why she´s not here no more
She left this house four years today,
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they say she´s lookin´ for some Georgia farm boy"
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