San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by Waylon Jennings

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Difficulty: Novice



Capo on the 3rd fret.

Verse 1:
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	His daddy was a honest man,a red dirt Georgia farmer
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	His mama lived a short life having kids and bailing hay
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	He had fifteen years of ache inside to wander
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	He jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.

Verse 2:
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	The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy
                         E MajorE
	Most days he went hungry,then the summer came
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	He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco Mabel Joy
                    E MajorE          A augmentedA
	Destitutions child born on an L.A. street called shame


Verse 3:
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	Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
                                   E MajorE
	Laughter found their mornings it brought new meaning to his life
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	The night before she left sleep came and found that Waycross country boy
                      E MajorE      A augmentedA
	With dreams of Georgia cotton and California wine


Verse 4:
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	Sunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door
                                   E MajorE
	A augmentedA right cross sent him reeling and put him face down on the floor
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	Inplace of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
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	He said your Georgia neck is red,but sonny you're still green

Verse 5:
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	He turned twenty-one in grey rock federal prison
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	The judge had no mercy on this Waycross,Georgia boy
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	Staring at those four grey wall in silence,Lord he listened
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	To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy


Verse 6:
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	Sunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door
                       E MajorE
	With a bullet in his side he cried,have you seen Mabel Joy
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	Stunned and shaken someone said she don't live here no more
                      E MajorE
	She left this house four years ago she was looking for
           D MajorD
	Some Georgia farm boy

FIN

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