Тональность: G major•
Verse 1
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His daddy was a simple man,
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D
just a red dirt Georgia farmer
G
And his momma spent her young
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live havin´ kids and balin´ hay
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He had fifteen years and an
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G
ache inside to wander
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G
So he hopped a freight in Waycross and
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G
wound up in L.A.
Verse 2
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C
nights had no pity on a
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D
Waycross, Georgia farm boy
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Most days he went hungry
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then the summer came
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C
He met a girl known on the strip as San Francis
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D
G
co´s Mabel Joy
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Destitution´s child born of an L.A. street
called "Shame"
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Verse 3
C
Growin´ up came quietly in
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D
the arms of Mabel Joy
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D
G
Laughter found their mornings
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brought meaning to his life
C
Yes the night before she left sleep
came and left that
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Waycross, Georgia boy with dreams of Georgia
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cotton and a California wife
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Verse 4
C
Sonday morning found him
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standin´ ´neath the red light at her door
When a right cross sent him reelin´ put
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D
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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Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red but sunny,
Verse 5
G
He turned twenty-one in in a
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grey rock fed´ral prison
The old judge had no mercy for a
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G
Waycross, Georgia boy
Starin´ at those four grey walls
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in silence he would listen
To that midnight freight he knew would
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take him back to Mabel Joy
Verse 6
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Sunday morning´ found him
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standin´ ´neath 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 today,
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they say she´s lookin´ for some Georgia farm boy"
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