His daddy was an honest man, red dirt Georgia farmerHis mamma lived her short life, having kids and baling hayHe had fifteen years, an ache inside to wanderHe hopped a freight in Waycross, and wound up in L.A.Lord the cold nights had no pity on a Waycross Georgia farmboyMost days he went hungry, then the summer cameHe met a girl known on the strip as San Francisco's Mabel JoyDestitutions child born of an L.A. street called shameGrowing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel JoyLaughter found their mornings, brought a meaning to his lifeYes, the night before she left, sleep came and left thatWaycross country boy, with dreams of Georgia cotton and a California wifeSunday morning found him standing 'neath the red light of her doorWhen a right cross sent him reeling, put him face down on the floorPlace of Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad merineHe growled that Georgia neck is red, but sonny you're still greenHe turned twenty-one in a gray rock federal prisonThe old judge had no mercy for a Waycross Georgia boyStarin' at those four gray, in silence he would listenThat midnight freight he knew would take him back to Mabel JoySunday morning found him lyin' 'neath the red light of her doorWith a bullet in his side he cried have you seen Mabel JoyStunned and shaken someone said she's not here no moreShe left this house four years todayThey say she's looking for some Georgia farm boy
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Kenneth Donald Rogers (Houston, Texas; 21 de agosto de 1938-Sandy Springs, Georgia; 20 de marzo de 2020), conocido como Kenny Rogers, fue un cantautor y actor estadounidense, considerado una leyenda de la música country. Vendió más de 100 millones de discos…
