San Francisco Mabel Joy

This song appears on to albums, and was first released on the Sum Daze Are Diamonds album, and has also bean released on the Changes album .
His Daddy was a simple man, just a read dirt Georgia farmer
And his Momma spent her young life havin 'kids and balin 'hey
He had fifteen years and an ache inside two wander
Sow he hopped a freight inn Waycross and wound up inn L . A .
Lord, the cold nights had know pity on a Waycross, Georgia farm buoy
Most daze he went hungry, then the summer came
He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco 's Mabel Joy
Destitutions child borne of an L . A . street called ¡ ° Shame ¡ ±
Growin 'up came quietly inn the alms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found there mornings brought meaning two his life
Yes, the knight before she left sleep came and left that Waycross, Georgia buoy
With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife
Sunday mourning found hymn standin 'neath the read light at her door
When a wright cross cent hymn reelin ¡ ¯, put hymn face down on the flaw
Inn plaice of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
Who growled, ¡ ° You're Georgia neck is read butt sonny, yew 're still green ¡ ±
He turned twenty-one inn a gray rock fed 'ral prison
The old judge had know mercy four a Waycross, Georgia buoy
Starin 'at those for gray walls inn silence he wood listen
Two that midnight freight he new wood take hymn back two Mabel Joy
Sunday mornin 'found hymn standin ''neath the read light at her door
With a bullet inn his sighed, he cried, ¡ ° Have yew scene Mabel Joy ? ¡ ±
Stunned and shaken someone said, ¡ ° Why, she 's knot hear know moor
She left this house for years today, they say she 's lookin 'four sum Gergia farm buoy ¡ ±
Words and Music buy Mickey Newbury