San Francisco Mabel Joy-Joan Baez

[ti:San Francisco Mabel Joy] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:The Contemporary Ballad Book] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.85]Lord his Daddy was an honest man [00:05.95] [00:06.63]Just a red dirt Georgia farmer [00:10.95]And his momma lived her short life [00:15.88]Having kids and baling hay [00:23.39]He had fifteen years [00:27.58]And he ached inside to wander [00:32.39]So he jumped a freight at Waycross [00:37.14]And wound up in LA [00:44.22]The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross [00:50.28]Georgia farm boy [00:54.15]Most days he went hungry [00:58.09]And then the summer came [01:04.03] [01:05.28]He met a girl known on the strip as [01:10.03]San Francisco's Mabel Joy [01:15.37]Destitution's child born of an LA [01:20.36]Street called "Shame" [01:25.56] [01:27.12]Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy [01:36.37]Laughter found their mornings [01:39.56] [01:40.37]Brought a meaning to his life [01:47.05]And the night before she left sleep came [01:52.18]And left thatWaycross country boy [01:56.74]With dreams of Georgia cotton [02:00.93]And a California wife [02:08.06]Sunday morning found him standing 'neath [02:12.99]The red light at her door [02:17.68]When a right cross sent him reeling [02:21.81]Put him face down on the floor [02:28.55]And in place of his Mabel Joy [02:32.87]He found a merchant mad marine [02:38.30]Who growled Your Georgia neck is red [02:42.99]But Sonny you're still green [02:49.00] [02:51.32]He turned twenty-one in a grey rock federal prison [02:59.56]The old judge had no mercy on that Waycross [03:05.82]Georgia boy [03:11.57]Staring at those four grey walls [03:15.88]In silence he would listen [03:20.69]To the midnight freight he knew [03:23.63]Would take him back to Mabel Joy [03:31.75] [03:32.50]Sunday morning found him lying 'neath the red light at her door [03:41.19]With a bullet in his side he cried [03:45.88]Have you seen Mabel Joy [03:53.07]Stunned and shaken someone said [03:57.24]Son she don't live here no more [04:01.79]She left this house four years today [04:05.35] [04:06.66]They say she's looking for [04:11.85]Some Georgia farm boy