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Verse 1
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His Daddy was a simple man,
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just a red dirt Georgia farmer
And his Momma spent her young
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life having kids and baling hay
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He had fifteen years and
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an ache inside to wander
So he hopped a freight in Way
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cross and wound up in L.A.
Verse 2
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Lord, the cold nights had no pity on a Way cross,
Most days he went hungry,
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He met a girl known on the strip as San
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Destitutions child born of an
L.A. street called Shame
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Verse 3
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Growing up came quietly in the
Laughter found their mornings
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brought meaning to his life
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Yes, the night before she left sleep came
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and left that Way cross, Georgia boy
With dreams of Georgia cotton
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and a California wife
Verse 4
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Sunday morning found him standing
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neath the red light at her door
When a right cross sent him reeling,
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put him face down on the floor
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In place of Mabel Joy he found a
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Who growled, your Georgia neck is red but sonny,
you're still green
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Verse 5
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He turned twenty-one in in a
gray rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy for a Way cross,
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Staring at those four gray walls in
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silence he would listen
To that midnight freight he knew would
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take him back to Mabel Joy
Verse 6
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Sunday morning found him standing
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'neath the red light at her door
With a bullet in his side, he cried,
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Have you seen Mabel Joy?
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Stunned and shaken someone said,
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why, she's not here no more
She left this house four years today,
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they say she's looking for some Georgia farm boy
Outro 1
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