He was on his way home from Candletop
He was two weeks gone, and he`d thought he`d stop
At Web`s and have a drink `fore he went home to her
Andy Wo-Lo said hello
He said `How you doin`?`
Wo said `Sit down, I got some bad news and it`s gonna hurt.`
He said, `I`m your best friend, and you know that`s right, but your young bride ain`t home tonight
Since you been gone, she`s been seeing that Amos boy, Seth.`
He got mad, and he saw red
Andy said, `Boy, don`t lose your head, cuz to tell you the truth, I 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 backward Southern lawyer
Cuz the judge in town has got blood stains on his hands
Well Andy got scared, and left the bar
Walkin` on home, cuz 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 had left him, and that was a gun
He went off to Andy`s house
Slippin` through the back woods quiet as a mouse
And came upon some tracks too small for Andy to make
He looked through the screen at the back porch door
Saw old Andy there lyin` on the floor
In a puddle of blood, and he started to shake
Georgia patrol was making their rounds
So he fired a shot just to flag them down
A big-bellied sherriff grabbed his gun and said `Why`d you do it?`
Judge said guilty at a make-believe trial
Slapped the sherriff on the back with a smile
And said `Supper`s waitin` 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
Don`t trust your soul with a backward Southern lawyer
Cuz the judge in town has got blood stains 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 cheatin` 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 with a backward Southern lawyer
Cuz the judge in town has got blood stains on his hands
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