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