WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Waylon Jennings - San Francisco Mabel Joy Ukulele | Ver. 1
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
*************** SAN FRANCISCO MABEL JOY ***************
performed by Waylon Jennings.
Capo on the 3rd fret.
Verse 1:
C F C
His daddy was a honest man,a red dirt Georgia farmer
G
His mama lived a short life having kids and bailing hay
C F C
He had fifteen years of ache inside to wander
G C
He jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.
Verse 2:
C F C
The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy
G
Most days he went hungry,then the summer came
C F C
He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco Mabel Joy
G C
Destitutions child born on an L.A. street called shame
Verse 3:
F C
Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
G
Laughter found their mornings it brought new meaning to his life
F C
The night before she left sleep came and found that Waycross country boy
G C
With dreams of Georgia cotton and California wine
Verse 4:
F C
Sunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door
G
A right cross sent him reeling and put him face down on the floor
F C
Inplace of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
G
He said your Georgia neck is red,but sonny you're still green
Verse 5:
C F C
He turned twenty-one in grey rock federal prison
G
The judge had no mercy on this Waycross,Georgia boy
C F C
Staring at those four grey wall in silence,Lord he listened
G
To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy
Verse 6:
F C
Sunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door
G
With a bullet in his side he cried,have you seen Mabel Joy
F C
Stunned and shaken someone said she don't live here no more
G
She left this house four years ago she was looking for
F
Some Georgia farm boy