Chords for Waylon Jennings San Fransico Mabel Joy

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His daddy was an honest man, [F]
a red dirt Georgia [C] farmer. _ _ _ _
His mama lived a short life, having kids and [G] bailing hay. _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ He had fifteen [F]
years, a lake [C] inside to wander. _ _ _
_ _ He jumped a freight and way crossed, and wound up in L.A. _ _ _
_ The cold nights had no pity, on [F] that way crossed Georgia [C] farm boy. _
_ _ Most days he went hunting, _ then the summer [G] came. _ _
_ _ _ [C] He met a girl known on the strip, [F] as San [C] Francisco's Mabel Joy.
_ _ _ _ _ Destitution's child born [G] on an L.A. [C] street called _ Shanks.
_ _ [F] _ Rowan came quietly in the arms of [C] Mabel Joy. _ _
[C] _ _ _ Laughter found her morning, and brought new meaning to [G] his life. _
_ _ _ [F] The night before she left, sleep came and found that way [C] crossed country boy.
_ _ He dreamed of George Cotton, [G] and a _ [C] California wife. _ _
_ _ _ [F] Sunday morning found him, beneath the red light at [C] her door. _ _
_ _ A right cross in him reeling, put him face down [Bb] on the floor.
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_ _ [F] Place of Mabel Joy, he found a merchant [C] mad marine. _ _ _
_ He said, Joe George, your neck is red, [Bb] but sonny you're [G] still green. _ _ _
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He turned twenty-one, to [F] Gray Rock Federal Prison. _ _ _ _
Judge had no mercy, on this way crossed [G] Georgia boy.
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He's staring at those four gray [F] walls.
Silence [C] lordy listened, _ _ _ to midnight frames.
And you could take him [G] back to Mabel Joy.
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Sunday morning found him, beneath the red light at [C] her door.
_ _ _ A bullet in his side, he cried, [Bb] you see Mabel [G] Joy.
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Stunned and shaken, someone said, she don't live here no [C] more.
_ _ _ _ She left this house four years [Bb] ago, she was looking [G] for, _ _ some [F] Georgia farm boy.
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