San Francisco Mable Joy chords by John Denver

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

San Francisco Mable Joy
John Denver

Intro D

                  G        D
His Daddy was an honest man just a red dirt Georgia farmer
                            A
His mother lived her short life havin` kids and bailing hay
D              G        D
He had fifteen years and he ached inside to wander
                  A       D
So He jumped a freight in Waycross wound up in L.A.

               G        D
Cold nights had no pity on a Waycross Georgia farm boy
                      A
Most days he went hungry then the summer came
  D                G       D
He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco Mabel Joy
               A         D
Destitutions child born of an L.A. street called shame

G                     D
Growin` up came easy in the arms of Mabel Joy
                            A
Laughter found their mornings brought a meaning to his life
    G                            D
Yes The night before she left sleep came and gave that Waycross country boy
              A        D
A dream of Georgia cotton and a California wife

    G                           D
Sunday mornin` found him standing neath the red light at her door
                               A
When A right cross sent him reelin` put him face down on the floor
  G                     D
In place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
	                  A         D
Who growled your Georgia neck is red ah but sonny you`re still green

             G          D
He turned twenty one in a grey rock Federal Prison
                         A
The old Judge had no mercy for a Waycross country boy
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Staring at those four grey walls in silence Lord he just listened
	                    A
To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy

    G                         D
Sunday mornin` found him lying neath the red light at her door
                      A
With a bullet in his side he cried have you seen Mabel Joy
G                             D
Stunned and shaken someone said why she don`t live here no more
                     A
She left this house four years today they say she???s looking for
         D
Some Georgia farm boy