San Francisco Mabel Joy – Joan Baez
Nghệ sĩ: Joan Baez
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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Lord His daddy was an honest man, just a red dirt Georgia farmer
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And his mama lived her short life having kids and bailing hay
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He had fifteen years and he ached inside to wander
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So he jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy
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Most days he went hungry, and then the summer came
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He met a girl known on the strip as San Franciscos Mabel Joy
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Destitutions child born of an L.A. street called shame
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
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Laughter found their mornings, brought a meaning to his life
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And the night before she left, sleep came and left that Waycross country boy
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With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
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Sunday morning found him standing beneath the red light at her door
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When a right cross sent him reeling put him face down on the floor
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And in place of his Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
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Who growled "Your Georgia neck is red, but sonny you're still green"
Verse 5→ Phiên khúc
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He turned twenty-one in a grey rock federal prison
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The old judge had no mercy on that Waycross country boy
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Staring at those four grey walls in silence,he would listen
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To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy
Verse 6→ Phiên khúc
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Sunday morning found him lyin' 'neath the red light at her door
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With a bullet in his side he cried, "Have you seen Mabel Joy
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Stunned and shaken someone said "Son she don't live here no more.
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She left this house four years today, they say she's looking for
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Some Georgia farm boy".