Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Reba McEntire version
 

You'll have fun with this song!

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|    He was | on his way home from Candletop, been |
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| two weeks gone and he'd thought he'd stop at Web's |
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| and have him a drink 'fore he went home to her. |     | Andy Wolo said "hello". |
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| He said "Hi, what's doin'?" Wo said | "Sit down I got some bad news, it's gonna hurt".|
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|        He | said "I'm your 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 been gone she's been see'n that Amos boy |
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| Seth".    Now he got mad and he saw red. |
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| Andy said "boy don'tcha lose your head, cause to |
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| tell you the truth I've been with her my | self".     |

Chorus: (Change to key of "G")
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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.  Well don't |

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| trust your soul to no backwoods southern law | yer. Cause the |

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| judge in the town's got bloodstains on his | hands. Well, |


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| Andy got scared and left the bar. An' |
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| walkin' on home 'cause he didn't live far; you see An |
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| dy didn't have many friends, and he'd just lost him one. |      |
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| Brother thought his wife must've left town, so | he went on home and finally found the|
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| only thing Daddy left him and that was a gun. |      |
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| He went off to Andy's house, slippin' through the backwoods quiet as a mouse. Came |
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| upon some tracks too small for Andy to make. |     He |
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| looked through the screen at the back porch door an' |
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| he saw Andy lyin' on the floor in a |
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| puddle of blood and he started to shake. |     The |

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| Georgia patrol was a makin' their rounds so he | fired a shot just to flag 'em down. A|
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| big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said "Why'd you | do it?"       The |

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| judge said "guilty" in a make believe trial. |
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| Slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile and said |
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| "Supper's waitin' at home and I got to get | to it".     |

Chorus:  (change to key of "G")
 

(Back to key of Eb)
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|   Well they | hung my brother before I could say the
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| tracks he saw while on his way to An | dy's house and back that night were mine. |
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|    And | his cheatin' wife had never left town, and |
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| that's one body that'll never be found cause lit |
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| tle sister don't miss when she aims her gun. |      |

Chorus:  3 times fading out on the 3rd time in key of "G"