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