The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

CAPO at III

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He was on his way home from Candletop
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Been two weeks gone and he thought he stop
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at Web's and have him a drink 'for he went home to her

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Andy Wo-Lo said hello
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he said 'Hi, what's a doing', Wo
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said sit down, I got some bad news that's gonna hurt.

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Said I'm you best friend and you know that's right
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But your young bride ain't home tonight
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Since you've been gone she's been seeing that Amos boy, Seth

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He got mad and he saw red
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Andy said, Boy, don't you lose your head
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Cause to tell you the truth, I've been with her myself



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That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia
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That's the night that they hung an innocent man
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Don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
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Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands
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Andy got scared and he left the bar
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Walking on home cause he didn't live far
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You see, Andy didn't have many friends and he just lost him one

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Brother thought his wife must've left town
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So he went home and finally found
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the only thing Daddy left him and that was a gun

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He went off to Andy's house
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Slipping through the woods as quiet as a mouse
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Come upon some tracks too small for Andy to make

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He looked through the screen at the back porch door
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He saw Andy lying on the floor
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In a puddle of blood, and he started to shake.

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The Georgia Patrol was making their rounds
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so he fired a shot just to flag them down
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A big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said,
          Em
Why'd you do it?

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They hung my brother before I could say
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the tracks he saw while on this way
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to Andy's house and back that night were mine

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And his cheatin' wife had never left town
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That's one body that'll never be found
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You see, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun

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That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia
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That's the night that they hung an innocent man
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Don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
           A                       B                  E
Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands