San Francisco Mabel Joy Lyrics - Singles - Jones Kacey

Lord, his daddy was an honest man 

A redwood Georgia farmer 

His mama lived a short life 

Having kids and bailing hay 

He had fifteen years 

And he ached inside to wander 

He jumped afraid and weak cross 

And wound up in a lake 

Oh, the cold nights had no pity 

On that way crossed Georgia farm boy 

Most days he went hungry 

And then the summer came 

He met a girl know on the strip 

At San Francisco's Mabel Joy 

Destitution's child born of 

An LA street called Shane 

Growin' up came quietly 

In the arms of Mabel Joy 

Laughter found in mornings 

It brought a meaning to his life 

Lord, on the night before she left sleep Kane 

And left that way crossed country boy 

With dreams of Georgia cotton 

And a California wife 

Sunday morning found him standing in ease 

The red light at her door 

A right cross sent him reelin' 

Put him face down on the floor 

In place of his Mabel Joy he found 

A merchant memory 

Who ground your Georgia neckies red 

But sunny, your still green 

He turned twenty one 

In a Gray Rock Federal Prison 

The old judge had no mercy 

On that way crossed Georgia boy 

Staring at those four gray walls 

In silence he would listen 

To that midnight freight 

He knew could take him back to Mabel Joy 

Sunday morning found him lying in ease 

The red light at her door 

With a bullet in his side 

He cried, abusing Mabel Joy 

Stunned and shaken, someone says 

Son she's not here no more 

She left this house four years today 

They say she's lookin' for some Georgia farm boy