San Francisco Maybel Joy by David Allan Coe, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

San Francisco Maybel Joy

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David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter. Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and prisons, and first became notable for busking in Nashville. He initially played mostly in the blues style, before transitioning to country music, becoming a major part of the 1970s outlaw country scene. His biggest hits were "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile", "The Ride", "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", "She Used to Love Me a Lot", and "Longhaired Redneck".

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David Allan Coe - San Francisco Maybel Joy

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My daddy was an honest man, just a redneck Georgia farm boy
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My momma spent her short life raisin' kids and bailin' hay
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And I was just fifteen, when I ached inside to wonder
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So I hoped a freight in Waycross, and I rode it to L.A.
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Well, I met a girl known on the strip, as San Francisco?s Maybel Joy
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Destitution?s child, born on a L.A. street called Shane
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And sleep came and left, this little Waycross, Georgia country boy
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Maybel Joy was gone Lord, I?d never see her again
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Growin? up came quietly in the arms of Maybel Joy
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Laughter found our morning's, brought new meaning to my life
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I woke up one day, Lord, to find that I was by myself
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With dreams of Georgia cotton, and California wine
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Sunday mornin' found me standin' 'neath the red-light of her door
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Right Cross sent me reelin', laid me face down on the floor
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In place of Maybel Joy I found a merchant mad marine
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Who said, "your Georgia neck is red, but, son here your still green."

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Well, I turned twenty-one, in Grey Rock federal prison
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The judge, he had no mercy on this Waycross, Georgia boy
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Sometimes at night, in silence Lord I'd listen
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That same old freight to take me back to Maybel Joy
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Cold nights had no pity on this Waycross, Georgia farm boy
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Springtime turned to summer, and then the winter came
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Starin' at those four grey walls in silence Lord, I'd listen
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Somewhere in the distance to the whistle of the train
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Sunday mornin' found me standin' 'neath the red-light of her door
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With a bullet in my side I cried "have you seen Maybel Joy
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Stunned and shaken someone said, "son, she don't live here no more"
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She left this town ten years ago, I heard she's lookin? for
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Some Georgia farm boy.