san francisco mabel joy
Singer: baez, joan
lord his daddy was an honest man
just a red dirt georgia farmer
and his momma lived her short life having kids and baling hay
he had fifteen years and he ached inside to wander
so he jumped a freight at waycross and wound up in la. the cold nights had no pity on that waycross
georgia farm boy
most days he went hungry
and then the summer came
he met a girl known on the strip as san francisco's mabel joy
destitution's child
born of an la. street called shame"