《San Francisco Mabel Joy》歌词

[00:00:00] San Francisco Mabel Joy - Mickey Newbury

[00:00:05] Composer：Mickey Newbury

[00:00:10] Lyricist：Mickey Newbury

[00:00:16] Lord his daddy was an honest man

[00:00:24] Just a red dirt Georgia farmer

[00:00:29] His momma lived her short life having kids and baling hay

[00:00:43] He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander

[00:00:54] So he hopped a freight at Waycross

[00:01:00] Wound up in L.A

[00:01:06] Well the cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy

[00:01:19] Most days he went hungry then the summer came

[00:01:33] He met a girl known on the strip

[00:01:38] The San Francisco's Mabel Joy

[00:01:43] Destitution's child born on an L.A. street called Shame

[00:01:57] Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy

[00:02:08] Laughter found their mornings born the meaning to his life

[00:02:20] Now the night before she left sleep came and left that Waycross country boy

[00:02:31] With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife

[00:02:42] Sunday morning found him standin 'neath the red light at her door

[00:02:55] When a right cross sent him reeling

[00:03:00] Put him face down on the floor

[00:03:08] In place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine

[00:03:20] Who growled your Georgia neck is red but Sonny you're still green

[00:03:32] So he turned twenty-one in a gray rock federal prison

[00:03:44] That old judge had no mercy for that Waycross Georgia boy

[00:03:58] Staring at those four gray walls in silence learning listen

[00:04:08] To that midnight freight he knew take him back to Mabel Joy

[00:04:21] Sunday morning found him lying neath the red light at her door

[00:04:32] With a bullet in his side he cried

[00:04:37] Have you seen Mabel Joy

[00:04:47] Stunned and shaken someone said son she don't live here no more

[00:04:58] No she left this house four years today

[00:05:05] They say she's looking for some Georgia farm boy