![San Francisco Mabel Joy - Kenny Rogers](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284751388693925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 31.12.2007
Song language: English
San Francisco Mabel Joy |
His daddy was an honest man, red dirt Georgia farmer |
His mamma lived her short life having kids and baling hay |
He had fifteen years, an ache inside to wander |
He hopped a freight in Waycross, wound up in L.A. |
Lord the cold nights had no pity on a Waycross Georgia farmboy |
Most days he went hungry, then the summer came |
He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco’s Mabel Joy |
Destitutions child born of an L.A. street called shame |
Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy |
Laughter found their mornings, brought a meaning to his life |
Yes, the night before she left, sleep came and left that Waycross country boy |
with dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife |
Sunday morning found him standing 'neath the red light of her door |
When a right cross sent him reeling, put him face down on the floor |
In place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad merine, he growled that Georgia |
neck is red, but sonny your still green |
He turned twenty-one in a gray rock federal prison |
The old judge had no mercy for a Waycross Georgia boy |
Starin' at those four gray, in silence he would listen |
That midnight freight he knew would take him back to Mabel Joy |
Sunday morning found him lyin' 'neath the red light of her door |
With a bullet in his side he cried have you seen Mabel Joy |
Stunned and shaken someone said she’s not here no more |
She left this house four years today |
They say she’s looking for some Georgia farm boy |
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