《San Francisco Mabel Joy》歌词

歌曲： San Francisco Mabel Joy

所属专辑：Blessed Are...

歌手： Joan Baez

时长： 04:25

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Lord his daddy was an honest man[00:00:00]

Just a red dirt Georgia farmer[00:00:06]

And his momma lived her short life[00:00:10]

Having kids and baling hay[00:00:15]

He had fifteen years[00:00:23]

And he ached inside to wander[00:00:27]

So he jumped a freight at Waycross[00:00:32]

And wound up in L A [00:00:37]

The cold nights had no pity[00:00:44]

On that Waycross Georgia farm boy[00:00:48]

Most days he went hungry[00:00:54]

And then the summer came[00:00:58]

He met a girl known on the strip[00:01:05]

As San Francisco's Mabel Joy[00:01:09]

Destitution's child[00:01:15]

Born of an L A street called 'Shame'[00:01:18]

Growing up came quietly[00:01:27]

In the arms of Mabel Joy[00:01:30]

Laughter found their mornings[00:01:36]

Brought a meaning to his life[00:01:40]

And the night before she left[00:01:47]

Aleep came and left that Waycross country boy[00:01:51]

With dreams of Georgia cotton[00:01:56]

And a California wife[00:02:01]

Sunday morning found him standing[00:02:08]

'Neath the red light at her door[00:02:12]

When a right cross sent him reeling[00:02:17]

Put him face down on the floor[00:02:21]

And in place of his Mabel Joy[00:02:28]

He found a merchant mad marine[00:02:32]

Who growled "Your Georgia neck is red[00:02:38]

But sonny you're still green"[00:02:42]

He turned twenty-one[00:02:51]

In a gray rock federal prison[00:02:54]

The old judge had no mercy[00:02:59]

On that Waycross country boy[00:03:03]

Staring at those four gray walls[00:03:11]

In silence he would listen[00:03:15]

To the midnight freight[00:03:20]

He knew would take him back to Mabel Joy[00:03:22]

Sunday morning found him lying[00:03:32]

'Neath the red light at her door[00:03:36]

With a bullet in his side he cried[00:03:41]

"Have you seen Mabel Joy"[00:03:45]

Stunned and shaken someone said[00:03:52]

"Son she don't live here no more[00:03:57]

No she left this house four years today[00:04:01]

They say she's looking for some Georgia farm boy[00:04:06]