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(# 8 top country album)
(# 214 top pop album)
Billy Sanford - guitar/dobro
Dale Sellers, Fred Carter, Jimmy Capps, Dave Kirby, Billy Reynolds, Chip Young - guitar
Ralph Mooney - steel/dobro
Bobby Dyson, Henry Strzelecki, Ralp Gallant, Len Miller - bass
Hargus Pig Robbins- piano
Kenneth Buttrey, Buddy Harman, Willie Ackerman, Ralph Gallant, Richie Albright - drums
Don Brooks - harmonica
Byron Bach, David Vanderkkok - cello
Marvin Chantry, Gary Vanosdale - viola
Brenton Banks, George Binkley, Lennie Haight, Sheldon Kurland - violin
Vocals:
Lea Jane Bernati, Ginger Holladay, Mary Holladay, Temple Riser
Recorded:
Dec/1972, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
Engineering: Bill Vandevort, Leslie Ladd, Tom Pick
© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI
His daddy was an honest man a red dirt Georgia farmer
Mama lived her young life having kids and bailing hay
He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander
Jumped a freight in Waycross wound up in LA
The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgia farm boy
Most days he went hungry then the summer came
Met a girl known on the Strip as San Francisco's Mabel Joy
Destitution's child born on an LA street called Shame
Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel Joy
Laughter found the mornings that brought the meaning to his life
Night before she left sleep came and found that Waycross country boy
With dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wife
Sunday morning found him neath the red light at her door
A right cross sent him reelin' and put him face down on the floor
In place of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad marine
He said your Georgia neck is red but Sonny you're still green
He turned twenty-one in a grey rock Federal prison
Judge had no mercy on this Waycross Georgia boy
Starin' at those four grey walls in silnce Lord he'd listen
To the midnight freight he knew could take him back to Mabel Joy
Sunday morning found him 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 she don't live here no more
She left this house four years ago she was lookin' for some Georgia farm boy
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