Capo on the 3rd fret.

Verse 1:
             A                        D                 A   
 	 His daddy was a honest man,a red dirt Georgia farmer
                                                            E 
 	 His mama lived a short life having kids and bailing hay
                A                 D              A  
 	 He had fifteen years of ache inside to wander
                                             E           A
 	 He jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.


Verse 2:
             A                               D                    A  
 	 The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy
                                                  E 
 	 Most days he went hungry,then the summer came
            A                                D                   A    
 	 He met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco Mabel Joy
                                       E                   A
 	 Destitutions child born on an L.A. street called shame


Verse 3:
            D                                         A 
 	 Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
                                                                     E
 	 Laughter found their mornings it brought new meaning to his life
             D                                                              A
 	 The night before she left sleep came and found that Waycross country boy
                                           E           A  
 	 With dreams of Georgia cotton and California wine


Verse 4:
           D                                                  A
 	 Sunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door
                                                                     E 
 	 A right cross sent him reeling and put him face down on the floor
             D                                       A 
 	 Inplace of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
 	                                       E  
 	 He said your Georgia neck is red,but sonny you're still green


Verse 5:
            A                     D                  A
 	 He turned twenty-one in grey rock federal prison
                                                        E 
 	 The judge had no mercy on this Waycross,Georgia boy
           A                                 D                  A    
 	 Staring at those four grey wall in silence,Lord he listened
 	                                                E
 	 To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy

 	 
Verse 6:
           D                                                   A  
 	 Sunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door
                                             E   
 	 With a bullet in his side he cried,have you seen Mabel Joy
          D                                                    A
 	 Stunned and shaken someone said she don't live here no more
                                            E
 	 She left this house four years ago she was looking for
                      D              
 	 Some Georgia farm boy