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Capo on the 3rd fret.
Verse 1:
LA RE LA
His daddy was a honest man,a red dirt Georgia farmer
MI
His mama lived a short life having kids and bailing hay
LA RE LA
He had fifteen years of ache inside to wander
MI LA
He jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.
Verse 2:
LA RE LA
The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy
MI
Most days he went hungry,then the summer came
LA RE LA
He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco Mabel Joy
MI LA
Destitutions child born on an L.A. street called shame
Verse 3:
RE LA
Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
MI
Laughter found their mornings it brought new meaning to his life
RE LA
The night before she left sleep came and found that Waycross country boy
MI LA
With dreams of Georgia cotton and California wine
Verse 4:
RE LA
Sunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door
MI
A right cross sent him reeling and put him face down on the floor
RE LA
Inplace of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
MI
He said your Georgia neck is red,but sonny you're still green
Verse 5:
LA RE LA
He turned twenty-one in grey rock federal prison
MI
The judge had no mercy on this Waycross,Georgia boy
LA RE LA
Staring at those four grey wall in silence,Lord he listened
MI
To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy
Verse 6:
RE LA
Sunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door
MI
With a bullet in his side he cried,have you seen Mabel Joy
RE LA
Stunned and shaken someone said she don't live here no more
MI
She left this house four years ago she was looking for
RE
Some Georgia farm boy
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