His Daddy was a simple man, just a red dirt Georgia farmer
And his Momma spent her young life havin kids and balin hay
He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander
So he hopped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.

Lord, the cold nights had no pity on a Waycross, Georgia farm boy
Most days he went hungry, then the summer came
He met a girl known on the strip as San Franciscos Mabel Joy
Destitutions child born of an L.A. street called Shame

Growin up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found their mornings it brought a meaning to his life
Lord on the night before she left sleep came left that Waycross, country boy
With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife

Sunday morning found him standin neath the red light at her door
right cross sent him reelin, put him face down on the floor
In place of his Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
he growled, Your Georgia neck is red but sonny, you're still green

He turned twenty-one in a gray rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy for that Waycross, Georgia boy
Starin' at those four gray walls in silence lord he just listened
To that midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy

Sunday mornin found him lying neath the red light at her door
With a bullet in his side, he cried, Have you seen Mabel Joy?
Stunned and shaken someone said, son, she don't live here no more
no, She left this house four years today, they say shes lookin for some Georgia farm boy

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