San Francisco Mabel Joy Lyrics - Joan Baez

Lord his Daddy was an honest man, just a red dirt Georgia farmer 

And his momma lived her short life having kids and baling hay 

He had fifteen years and he ached inside to wander 

So he jumped a freight at Waycross and wound up in LA. 

The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross, Georgia farm boy 

Most days he went hungry, and then the summer came 

He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco's Mabel Joy 

Destitution's child, born of an LA. street called "Shame" 

Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy 

Laughter found their mornings brought a meaning to his life 

And the night before she left sleep came and left thatWaycross, country boy 

With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife 

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Sunday morning found him standing 'neath the red light at her door 

When a right cross sent him reeling, put him face down on the floor 

And in place of his Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine 

Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red but Sonny you're still green" 

He turned twenty-one in a grey rock federal prison 

The old judge had no mercy on that Waycross, Georgia boy 

Staring at those four grey walls, in silence he would listen 

To the midnight freight he knew would take him back to Mabel Joy 

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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 

She left this house four years today, they say she's looking for ... 

Some Georgia farm boy