San Francisco Mabel Joy chords by Waylon Jennings (Ver. 2)

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: Novice




Capo on the 3rd fret.

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

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


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


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


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


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

FIN