Tonalidad: D major•
Verse 1
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G
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His daddy was an honest man,
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D
red dirt Georgia farmer
His mama lived her short life
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having kids and baling hay
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He had fifteen years,
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D
an ache inside to wander
He hopped a freight in
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Waycross, wound up in L.A.
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Verse 2
Lord, the cold nights had no pity on
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D
a Waycross Georgia farm boy
Most days he went hungry,
then the summer came
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D
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He met a girl known on the strip as San
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Francisco's Mabel Joy
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Destitutions child born of an
L.A. street called shame
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Verse 3
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Growing up came quietly in the
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arms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found their mornings,
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brought a meaning to his life
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Yes, the night before she left,
sleep came and left that Waycross
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Country boy with dreams of Georgia
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cotton and a California wife
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Verse 4
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Sunday morning found him standing
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'neath the red light of her door
When a right cross sent him reeling,
put him face down on the floor
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G
A
G
In place of Mabel Joy he
found a merchant mad marine
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He growled that Georgia neck is red,
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Em
but sonny your still green
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Verse 5
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He turned twenty- one in a
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gray rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy for a
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Waycross Georgia boy
D
Starin' at those four gray,
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in silence he would listen
That midnight freight he knew would
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Em
take him back to Mabel Joy
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Verse 6
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Sunday morning found him lyin'
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'neath the red light of her door
With a bullet in his side he cried have
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Em
A
you seen Mabel Joy
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Stunned and shaken someone
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said she's not here no more
She left this house four years today
Verse 7
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They say she's looking for some
Bm
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Em
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Georgia farm boy
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