San Francisco Mabel Joy

This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the some days are diamonds album, and has also been released on the changes album.



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 francisco's mabel joy

Destitutions child born of an l.a. street called