Georgia Farm Boy

[Intro] [Verse] His Daddy was a simple man just a red dirt Georgia farmer His Momma spent her shorter life havin’ kids and balin’ hay. He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander So he hopped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A. [Verse] Cold nights had no pity for a Waycross Georgia farm boy So most days he went hungry then the summer came. And he met a girl known on the strip as ’Francisco’s Mabel Joy Destitutions child born of an L.A. street called Shame. [Verse] So growin’ up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy Laughter found their mornings brought meaning to his life. The night before she left sleep came and left that Waycross country boy With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife. [Refrain] Sunday morning found him standin’ ’neath the red light at her door When a right cross sent him reelin’ put him face down on the floor. In the place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine Who growled "Your Georgia neck is red but sonny you’re still green". [Verse] He turned twenty-one in a gray rock fed’ral prison That old judge had no mercy for a Waycross Georgia boy. Starin’ at those four gray walls in silence he would listen To that midnight freight he knew would take him back to Mabel Joy. [End Refrain] Mornin’ found him standin’ ’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 "Why she’s not here no more She left this house four years today they say she’s lookin’ for Some Georgia farm boy."