Reba McEntire – The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia Chords

He was on his way home from Candle top
Been two weeks gone and he thought he’d stop
at Web’s and have him a drink ‘for he went home to her

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

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

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

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

Andy got scared and he left the bar
Walking on home cause he didn’t live far
You see, Andy didn’t have many friends and he just lost him one

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

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

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

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

The judge said guilty in a make believe trial
Slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile
And said supper’s waiting at home and I got to get to it

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

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

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

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

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