Jones Kacey - San Francisco Mabel Joy lyrics

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