San Francisco Mabel Joy – John Denver
Nghệ sĩ: John Denver
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
Intro
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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His Daddy was an honest man, just a red dirt Georgia farmer
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His mother spent her short life havin' kids and balin' 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 a Waycross, Georgia farm boy
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Most days he went hungry, then the summer came
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He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco's Mabel Joy
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Destitution's child born of an L.A. street called "Shame"
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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Growin' 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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Yes, the night before she left sleep came and gave that Waycross country boy
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A dream of Georgia cotton and a California wife
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
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Sunday morning found him standin' neath the red light at her door
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When a right cross sent him reelin', put him face down on the floor
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In place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
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Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red, oh but sonny, you're still green"
Interlude
Verse 5→ Phiên khúc
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He turned twenty-one in a gray rock fed'ral prison
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The old judge had no mercy for a Waycross country boy
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Starin' at those four gray walls in silence, lord, he'd just 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 mornin' 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, "Why, she don't live here no more
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She left this house four years today,
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they say she's lookin' for some Georgia farm boy"