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[Verse]
DGD
His Daddy was a simple man, just a red dirt Georgia farmer,
A
His Momma spent her shorter life, havin' kids and balin' hay.
DGD
He had fifteen years, and an ache inside to wander,
A
So he hopped a freight in Waycross, and wound up in L.A.
[Verse]
DGD
Cold nights had no pity, for a Waycross, Georgia farm boy,
A
So most days he went hungry, then the summer came.
DAD
And he met a girl known on the strip, as 'Francisco's Mabel Joy,
CA
Destitutions child, born of an L.A. street called Shame.
[Verse]
DGD
So growin' up came quietly, in the arms of Mabel Joy,
A
Laughter found their mornings, brought meaning to his life.
DGD
The night before she left, sleep came and left that Waycross, country boy,
CA
With dreams of Georgia cotton and a, California wife.
[Refrain]
GD
Sunday morning found him standin' 'neath the red light at her door,
A
When a right cross sent him reelin', put him face down on the floor.
GD
In the place of Mabel Joy, he found a merchant mad marine,
CA
Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red but, sonny, you're still green".
[Verse]
DGD
He turned twenty-one, in a gray rock fed'ral prison,
A
That old judge had no mercy for a, Waycross Georgia boy.
DGD
Starin' at those four gray walls, in silence he would listen,
CA
To that midnight freight he knew would take him, back to Mabel Joy.
[End Refrain]
GD
Mornin' found him standin' 'neath the red light at her door,
CA
With a bullet in his side, he cried, "Have you seen Mabel Joy?"
GD
Stunned and shaken someone said, "Why, she's not here no more,
CA
She left this house four years today, they say she's lookin' for,
DDDD
Some Georgia farm boy."