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  • (Mickey Newbury)
  • His daddy was an honest man a red dirt Georgia farmer
  • His mama lived her young life having kids and bailing hay
  • He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander
  • Jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in LA.
  • 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 as San Francisco's Mabel Joy
  • Destitution's child born on an LA street called Shame.
  • Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
  • Laughter found the mornings that brought the meaning to his life
  • Night before she left sleep came and found that Waycross country boy
  • With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife.
  • Sunday morning found him neath the red light at her door
  • A right cross sent him reelin' and put him face down on the floor
  • In place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
  • He said your Georgia neck is red but Sonny you're still green.
  • He turned twenty one in a grey rock Federal prison
  • The judge had no mercy on this Waycross Georgia boy
  • Starin' at those four grey walls in silnce Lord he'd listen
  • To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy.
  • Sunday morning found him 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 she don't live here no more
  • She left this house four years ago she was lookin' for some Georgia farm boy...

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