San Francisco Mabel Joy - Mickey Newbury

作词：Mickey Newbury

作曲：Mickey Newbury

Lord his daddy was an honest man

Just a red dirt Georgia farmer

His momma lived her short life having kids and baling hay

He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander

So he hopped a freight at Waycross

Wound up in L A

Well the cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy

Most days he went hungry then the summer came

He met a girl known on the strip

The San Francisco's Mabel Joy

Destitution's child born on an L A street called Shame

Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy

Laughter found their mornings born the meaning to his life

Now 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 standin 'neath the red light at 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 marine

Who growled your Georgia neck is red but Sonny you're still green

So he turned twenty-one in a gray rock federal prison

That old judge had no mercy for that Waycross Georgia boy

Staring at those four gray walls in silence learning listen

To that midnight freight he knew take him back to Mabel Joy

Sunday morning found him lying neath the red light at her door

With a bullet in his side he cried

Have you seen Mabel Joy

Stunned and shaken someone said son she don't live here no more

No she left this house four years today

They say she's looking for some Georgia farm boy