{"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":72439,"song":"San Francisco Mabel Joy","artist":"Waylon Jennings","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/72439-san-francisco-mabel-joy-chords-by-waylon-jennings/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/72439?type=chord","rating":4.61516,"votes":18,"content":"San Francisco Mabel Joy - Waylon Jennings \r\nCapo: 3\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHis daddy was a honest man, a red dirt Georgia farmer[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHis mama lived a short life having kids and bailing hay[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\n He had fifteen years of ache inside to wander[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nMost days he went hungry, then the summer came[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco's Mabel Joy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nDestitutions child born on an L.A. street called shame[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGrowing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLaughter found their mornings it brought new meaning to his life[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                                                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe night before she left sleep came and found that Waycross country boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWith dreams of Georgia cotton and California wine[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                            [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nA right cross sent him reeling and put him face down on the floor[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe said your Georgia neck is red,  but sonny you're still green[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe turned twenty-one in grey rock federal prison[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe judge had no mercy on this Waycross, Georgia boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nStaring at those four grey walls in silence, Lord he listened[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]E[/ch]             \r\nTo the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSunday morning found him beneath the red light at her door[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWith a bullet in his side he cried, have you seen Mabel Joy[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]                                                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nStunned and shaken someone said she don't live here no more[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe left this house four years ago she was looking for[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSome Georgia farm boy.[/tab]","plain_text":"San Francisco Mabel Joy - Waylon Jennings \nCapo: 3\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]","chords":["A","D","E","A7","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"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]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}