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The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia [Am]Reba McEntire

Intro
Am Am Am Am

Verse 1 He was Am on his way home from G Candletop
Am Been two weeks gone and he D thought he stop
at Am Web's and have him a G drink 'for he went home Am to her
Am Andy Wo-Lo said G hello
he said 'Am Hi, what's a doDing', Wo
said Am sit down, I got some G bad news that's gonnAma hurt.

Verse 2 Am Said I'm you best friend and you G know that's right
But Am your young bride ain't D home tonight
Am Since you've been gone she's been G seeing that Amos Am boy, Seth
Am He got mad and G he saw red
Am Andy said, Boy, don't you D lose your head
Cause to Am tell you the truth, G I've been with Am her myself

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

Verse 3 Am Andy got scared and he G left the bar
Am Walking on home cause he D didn't live far
You Am see, Andy didn't have many G friends and he just lost Am him one
Am Brother thought his wife G must've left town
So he Am went home and fiDnally found
the Am only thing Daddy G left him and that was Am a gun

Verse 4 Am He went off to G Andy's house
Am Slipping through the woods as D quiet as a mouse
Am Come upon some G tracks too small for Andy Am to make
He Am looked through the screen at the G back porch door
Am He saw Andy D lying on the floor
In a Am puddle of blood, Em and he started to Am shake.

Verse 5 The A Georgia Patrol was B making their rounds
so he E fired a shot just to E flag them down
A A big bellied sheriff grabbed his B gun and said,
Why'd you Em do it?
The Am judge said guilty in G a make believe trial
Slapped Am the sherrif on the D back with a smile
And Am said suppers waitGing at home and I Am got to get to it

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

Verse 6 They Am hung my brother before G I could say
the tracks Am he saw while on D this way
to Am Andy's house and G back that night Am were mine
Am And his cheatin' wife had G never left town
Am That's one body that'll D never be found
You Am see, little sister don't G miss when she aims Am her gun

Chorus x2

2 Am 1 2 3 G 1 1 1 D 1 2 A 1 2 3 B 1 2 E 1 2 3 Em