《Georgia Farm Boy》歌词

[00:00:00] Georgia Farm Boy - The Box Tops

[00:00:08] Daddy was a simple man

[00:00:12] Just a red dirt Georgia farmer

[00:00:16] And his momma spent her

[00:00:18] Short life havin' kids and balin' hay

[00:00:26] He had fifteen years and

[00:00:29] An ache inside to wander

[00:00:33] So he hopped a freight in

[00:00:35] Waycross and wound up in L A

[00:00:39] Lord the cold nights had no

[00:00:45] Pity for a Waycross Georgia farm boy

[00:00:51] Most days he went hungry

[00:00:56] Then the summer came

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

[00:01:04] As Francisco's Mabel Joy

[00:01:09] Destitution's child born of an L A

[00:01:13] Street called "Shame"

[00:01:19] Growin' up came quietly in the

[00:01:22] Arms of Mabel Joy

[00:01:27] Laughter found their mornings

[00:01:29] Brought meaning to his life

[00:01:36] The night before she left sleep

[00:01:39] Came and left that

[00:01:40] Waycross Georgia boy with dreams

[00:01:44] Of Georgia cotton and a California wife

[00:01:53] Sunday morning found him

[00:01:56] Standin' 'neath the red light at her door

[00:02:01] Right cross sent him reelin' put him

[00:02:04] Face down on the floor

[00:02:09] In the place of Mabel Joy he found

[00:02:13] A merchant mad marine

[00:02:17] Who growled "Your Georgia neck is

[00:02:20] Red but sunny you're still green"

[00:02:27] He turned twenty-one in

[00:02:30] A grey rock federal prison

[00:02:35] The old judge had no mercy for

[00:02:38] A Waycross Georgia boy

[00:02:44] Starin´ at those four grey walls

[00:02:47] In silence he would listen

[00:02:51] To that midnight freight he knew

[00:02:54] Would take him back to Mabel Joy

[00:03:01] Morning found him standin' 'neath

[00:03:04] The red light at her door

[00:03:08] With a bullet in his side he cried

[00:03:12] "Have you seen Mabel Joy "

[00:03:18] Stunned and shaken someone said

[00:03:21] "Why she's not here no more

[00:03:25] She left this sans four years today

[00:03:29] They say she's lookin' for some Georgia farm boy "