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San Francisco Mabel Joy
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Joan Baez
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Lord, his daddy was an honest man
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Just a red dirt, Georgia farmer
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And his momma lived her short life
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Having kids and baling hay
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He had fifteen years
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And he ached inside to wander
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So, he jumped a freight at Waycross
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And wound up in L.A.
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The cold nights had no pity
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On that Waycross, Georgia, farm boy
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Most days he went hungry
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And then the summer came
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He met a girl known on the strip
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As San Francisco's Mabel Joy
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Destitution's child
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Born of an L.A. street called 'Shame'
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Growing up came quietly
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In the arms of Mabel Joy
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Laughter found their mornings
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Brought a meaning to his life
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And the night before she left
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Aleep came and left that Waycross, country boy
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With dreams of Georgia cotton
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And a California wife
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Sunday morning found him standing
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'Neath the red light at her door
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When a right cross sent him reeling
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Put him face down on the floor
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And in place of his Mabel Joy
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He found a merchant mad marine
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Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red
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But sonny, you're still green"
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He turned twenty-one
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In a gray rock federal prison
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The old judge had no mercy
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On that Waycross, country boy
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Staring at those four gray walls
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In silence he would listen
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To the midnight freight
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He knew would take him back to Mabel Joy
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Sunday morning found him lying
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'Neath the red light at her door
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With a bullet in his side, he cried
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"Have you seen Mabel Joy?"
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Stunned and shaken someone said
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"Son, she don't live here no more
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No, she left this house four years, today
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They say she's looking for some Georgia farm boy
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