Tonalité : D major
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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havin' kids and balin' hay
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He had fifteen years and
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an ached inside to wander
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He jumped a freight at Waycross and
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wound up in L.A
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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G
Cold nights had no pity on that
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Waycross, Georgia farmboy
Most days he went hungry,
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D
then the summer came
He met a girl known on the strip,
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San Francisco's Mabel Joy
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Destitution's child born on an
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L.A. street called shame
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Verse 3
Growin' up came quietly in the
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arms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found their mornin's. It
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brought a meanin' to his life
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Now the night before she left sleep came
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And left that Waycross country boy
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With dreams of Georgia cotton
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and a California wife
Verse 4
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G
Sunday morning found him standin'
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'neath the red light at her door
A right- cross sent him reelin',
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G
A
put 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 Sonny,
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you're still green""
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Verse 5
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He turned twenty one in
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a gray rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy for that
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G
Waycross Georgia boy
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G
Starin' at those four gray walls in silence,
Lord he just listened
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To that midnight freight he knew could
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take him back to Mabel Joy
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Verse 6
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Sunday morning found him standing
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'neath the red light at her door
With a bullet in his side, he cried,
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Bm
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""Have you seen Mabel Joy?""
Stunned and shaken someone said
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Son, she don't live here no more
She left this house four years today
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Em
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They say she's looking for some
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Georgia farm boy
Outro 1
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Em
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