Mickey Newbury - San francisco mabel joy

^AMy daddy was an honest man just a ^Dredneck Georgia ^Afarm boy My momma spent her short life raisin' kids and bailin' ^Ehay And ^AI was just fifteen when I ^Dached inside to ^Awander So I hopped a freight in Waycross and I ^Grode it ^Fto L. ^EA.

^AWell I met a girl known on the strip as ^DSan Francisco?s ^AMaybel Joy Destitution?s child born on a L.A. street called ^Eshame And ^Asleep came and left this ^Dlittle Waycross Georgia ^Acountry boy Maybel Joy was gone Lord ^GI?d never ^Fsee her ^Eagain

^DGrowin? up came quietly in the arms of Maybel ^AJoy Laughter found our morning's brought new meaning to my ^Elife ^DI woke up one day Lord to find that I was ^Aby myself With dreams of Georgia cotton ^Eand California ^Awine

Sunday ^Dmornin' found me standin' 'neath the red light at her ^Adoor Right cross sent me reelin' laid me face down on the ^Efloor ^DIn place of my Maybel Joy I found a merchant mad ^Amarine Who said "Your Georgia neck is red but ^Gsonny ^Fyou're still ^Egreen"

^AWell I turned twenty-one in a ^Dgrey rock federal ^Aprison The judge he had no mercy on this ^GWaycross ^FGeorgia ^Eboy ^ASometimes at night in ^Dsilence Lord I'd ^Alisten That same old freight to take me ^Eback to Maybel ^AJoy

^DCold nights had no pity on this Waycross Georgia ^Afarm boy Springtime turned to summer and then the winter ^Ecame ^DStarin' at those four grey walls in silence Lord I'd ^Alisten Somewheres in the distance to the whistle of the ^Etrain

^DSunday mornin' found me lyin' 'neath the red-light at her ^Adoor With a bullet in my side I cried "Have you seen Maybel ^EJoy?" ^DStunned and shaken someone said "Son she don't live here no ^Amore She left this town ten years ago I ^Gheard she's ^Flookin? ^Efor Some Georgia ^Dfarm boy" ^A