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The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia Lyrics are available on MADaboutLYRICS. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia is the lead single from album “For My Broken Heart” from Singer Reba McEntire. The voice is given by Reba McEntire. The lyrics for this song are penned down by Bobby Russell.
Bobby Russell has given the music for this song.

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Song Details:

Song Name:	The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Singer:	Reba McEntire
Lyrics By:	Bobby Russell
Music By:	Bobby Russell
Release Date:	07 November 1972
Music Label:	Bell

The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia Lyrics

He was on his way home from Candletop
Been two weeks gone and he thought he’d stop

At Web’s and have him a drink
‘fore he went home to her
Andy Wo-Lo said hello,
he said, “Hi, what’s new?”
and Wo said
“Sit down,
I got some bad news that’s gonna hurt”

Said, “I’m your best friend
and you know that’s right

But your young bride ain’t home tonight
Since you’ve been gone,
she’s been seein’ that Amos boy, Seth”

Now 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
Well, don’t trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
‘Cause the judge in the town’s got bloodstains on his hands

Well, Andy got scared and 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 have left town
So he went home and finally found
The only thing Daddy had left him,
and that was a gun

He went off to Andy’s house
Slipping through the
backwoods quiet as a mouse
Came upon some tracks too
small for Andy to make
He looked through the screen
at the back porch door
And 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 ’em down
A big-bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said
“Why’d you do it?”

The judge said guilty on a make-believe trial
Slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile
He said, “Supper’s waiting at home and I gotta get to it”

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

Well, they hung my brother before I could say
The tracks he saw while on his 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
Well, don’t trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
‘Cause the judge in the town’s got bloodstains on his hands
That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia
That’s the night that they hung an innocent man
Well, don’t trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
‘Cause the judge in the town’s got bloodstains on his hands