SAN FRANCISCO FAN
(Joe Jackson)
Joe Jackson


San Francisco Fan
Loved a no go gambling man
She drank the coffee dregs 
so she could fry his eggs 
in a golden frying pan

Can Canned by command
Of the gold-rush cafe band
She gave her man her pay
He gambelled it away
Playing Chinatown bandstand

Once they caught him cheating
And he knw that he was beaten
When a miner aimed a pistol at his head
Fanny when she seen 'em
Ran and jumped right in between 'em
And she stopped a dozen slugs of poisoned lead!

There lay Fanny dyin'
While a hundred men stood cryin'
And the angels up above were cryin' too

When seven horses stated draggin'
Fanny's coffin in a wagggon
Through a dusty California venue

San Francisco Fan
Gave her life to save her man
A man who wasn't worth 
a shovel full of earth
From the gra-ave of 
San Francisco Fan!  



(Transcribed by Henry Watkinson - January 2004)