Night The Lights Went
Out In Georgia
Reba McEntire version,
Vicki
Lawrence, Jennifer
Nettles, Tanya
Tucker
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Midi 1(Eb83)* Midi 2(Eb83)*-harp |
| Tabbed by Mark Purintun 1-05 |
You'll have fun with this song!
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| He was | on his way home from Candletop, been |
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| two weeks gone and he'd thought he'd stop at Web's |
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| and have him a drink 'fore he went home to her. | | Andy Wolo said "hello". |
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| He said "Hi, what's doin'?" Wo said | "Sit down I got some bad news, it's
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| He | said "I'm your best friend and you know that's right. |
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But your young bride ain't home tonight. |
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Since you been gone she's been see'n that Amos boy |
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| Seth".
Now he got mad and he saw red. |
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Andy said "boy don'tcha lose your head, cause to |
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| tell you the truth I've been with her my | self".
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That's the night that the lights went out in | Georgia. |
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That's the night that they hung an innocent | man.
Well don't |
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| trust your soul to no backwoods southern law | yer.
Cause the |
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| judge in the town's got bloodstains on his | hands.
Well, |
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| Andy got scared and left the bar. An' |
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| walkin' on home 'cause he didn't live far; you see
An |
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| dy didn't have many friends, and he'd just lost him one. |
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Brother thought his wife must've left town, so | he went on home and finally found the|
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| only thing
Daddy left him and that was a gun. | |
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He went off to Andy's house, slippin' through the backwoods quiet as a mouse.
Came |
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| upon some tracks too small for Andy to make. |
He |
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| looked through the screen at the back porch door an' |
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| he saw Andy lyin' on the floor
in a |
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| puddle of blood and he started to shake. | The |
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| Georgia patrol was a makin' their rounds so he | fired a shot just to flag 'em down.
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| big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said
"Why'd you | do it?"
The |
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| judge said "guilty" in a make believe trial. |
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Slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile and said |
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"Supper's waitin' at home and I got to get | to it".
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Chorus: (change to key of "G")
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Well they | hung my brother before I could say the
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| tracks he saw while on his way to An | dy's house and back that night were mine.
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And | his cheatin' wife had never left town, and |
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| that's one body that'll never be found cause lit |
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| tle sister don't miss when she aims her gun. | |
Chorus: 3 times fading out on the 3rd time in key of "G"
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From June 30, 2006
Reba MacEntire
Vicki Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence (live)
Reba and Vicki talk about this song (Vicki's husband wrote this song)
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