{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2104479,"song":"San Francisco Mabel Joy","artist":"Mickey Newbury","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11456804-san-francisco-mabel-joy-chords-by-mickey-newbury/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2104479?type=chord","rating":4.61832,"votes":5,"content":"The lyrics here have been changed by David Allan Coe, so they differ slightly from the original.\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy daddy was an honest man just a redneck Georgia farm boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nMy momma spent her short life raisin' kids and bailin' hay[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I was just fifteen when I ached inside to wander[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo I hopped a freight in Waycross and I rode it to L. A.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWell I met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco?s Maybel Joy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nDestitution?s child born on a L.A. street called shame[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd sleep came and left this little Waycross Georgia country boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nMaybel Joy was gone Lord I?d never see her again[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGrowin? up came quietly in the arms of Maybel Joy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLaughter found our morning's brought new meaning to my life[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI woke up one day Lord to find that I was by myself[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWith dreams of Georgia cotton and California wine[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSunday mornin' found me standin' 'neath the red light at her door[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nRight cross sent me reelin' laid me face down on the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn place of my Maybel Joy I found a merchant mad marine[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWho said \"Your Georgia neck is red but sonny you're still green\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWell I turned twenty-one in a grey rock federal prison[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe judge he had no mercy on this Waycross Georgia boy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSometimes at night in silence Lord I'd listen[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThat same old freight to take me back to Maybel Joy[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCold nights had no pity on this Waycross Georgia farm boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSpringtime turned to summer and then the winter came[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nStarin' at those four grey walls in silence Lord I'd listen[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSomewheres in the distance to the whistle of the train[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSunday mornin' found me lyin' 'neath the red-light at her door[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWith a bullet in my side I cried \"Have you seen Maybel Joy?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nStunned and shaken someone said \"Son she don't live here no more[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe left this town ten years ago I heard she's lookin? for[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSome Georgia farm boy\"[/tab]","plain_text":"The lyrics here have been changed by David Allan Coe, so they differ slightly from the original.","chords":["A","D","E","G","F"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}