Georgia Farm Boy

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[Verse]
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His Daddy was a simple man, just a 
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red dirt Georgia farmer,
His Momma spent her shorter life, 
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havin' kids and balin' hay.
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He had fifteen years, and an ache
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 inside to wander,
So he hopped a freight in Waycross, 
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and wound up in L.A.

[Verse]
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Cold nights had no pity, for a 
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Waycross, Georgia farm boy,
So most days he went hungry, then 
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the summer came.
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And he met a girl known on the 
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strip, as 'Francisco's Mabel Joy,
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Destitutions child, born of an L.A.
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 street called Shame.

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[Verse]
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So growin' up came quietly, in the 
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arms of Mabel Joy,
Laughter found their mornings, 
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brought meaning to his life.
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The night before she left, sleep 
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came and left that Waycross, country
 boy,
With dreams of Georgia cotton and a,
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 California wife.

[Refrain]
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Sunday morning found him standin' 
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'neath the red light at her door,
When a right cross sent him reelin',
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 put him face down on the floor.
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In the place of Mabel Joy, he found
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 a merchant mad marine,
Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is 
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red but, sonny, you're still green".

[Verse]
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He turned twenty-one, in a gray 
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rock fed'ral prison,
That old judge had no mercy for a, 
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Waycross Georgia boy.
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Starin' at those four gray walls, 
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in silence he would listen,
To that midnight freight he knew 
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would take him, back to Mabel Joy.

[End Refrain]
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Mornin' found him standin' 'neath 
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the red light at her door,
With a bullet in his side, he cried,
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 "Have you seen Mabel Joy?"
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Stunned and shaken someone said, 
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"Why, she's not here no more,
She left this house four years 
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today, they say she's lookin' for,
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Some Georgia farm boy."