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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 do[D]ing', Wo
said [Am] sit down, I got some [G] bad news that's gonn[Am]a 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 fi[D]nally 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 wait[G]ing at home and I [Am] got to get to it

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

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