The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia Chords by Vicki Lawrence

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_ _ He was on his way home [Eb] from Candle Top, [Bbm] been two weeks gone and he thought he'd stop at
Webb's and have [Cm] him a drink before he went [Bbm] home to her.
_ _ Andy [Eb] Wolos said hello [Bbm] and he said, Hi, what's doing?
Whoa, said, sit down, I've [Ab] got some bad news [Bb] that's gonna [Bbm] hurt.
_ Said, I'm your best [Ab] friend and you know that's [Bbm] right, but your young [Eb] bride ain't home [Bbm] tonight.
Since you've been gone, [Fm] she's been saying that [Bbm] aimless voice, Seth.
_ [Bbm] Well, he got [Ab] mad and he saw [Bbm] red and Andy said, [Eb] boy, don't you lose your [Bbm] head.
Cause to tell you the [Fm] truth, I've been [Bbm] with her myself.
_ _ [Gm] That's [C] the night that the lights went [F] out in Georgia.
[Dm] _ _ [Gm] That's the [C] night that they haunted [F] the innocent man.
[Dm] _ [Gm] Well, don't trust a [Am] soul and old backwoods [F] southern lawyer.
[Dm] _ [Gm] Cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains [Fm] on his hands.
[Bbm] Well, Andy got [Eb] scared and left the bar, [Bbm]
walking on home [Eb] cause he didn't live far.
[Bbm] See, Andy didn't [Fm] have many friends and he'd [Bbm] just lost him one.
_ His brother thought his wife must have left town, so he went [Eb] home and finally [Bbm] found the
only thing [Fm] Papa had left him and that [Bbm] was a gun.
_ And he went [Ab] off to Andy's house, [Bbm] but slipping through the [Eb] backwoods quiet as a [Bbm] mouse, came
upon some [Fm] tracks too small for [Bbm] Andy to make.
_ He looked through the screen at the back porch door and he saw [Eb] Andy lying on the [Bbm] floor in
a puddle of [Fm] blood and he [Bbm] started to shake.
_ Well, the [Gm] Georgia [Am] patrol wasn't making their [F] rounds, so he fired a [Dm] shot, took a blaggum
[Gm] down, and a big belly [Am] sheriff grabbed his gun and [Fm] said, why'd you do it?
_ [Bbm] The judge said, [Bb] guilty in a make-believe [Bbm] trial.
Slapped the [Eb] sheriff on the back with a [Bbm] smile, said, supper's [Ab] waiting at home and I [Bbm] gotta
get to it.
_ _ [Gm] That's the [C] night that the lights went [F] out in Georgia.
[Dm] _ _ [Gm] That's the [C] night that they haunted the [F] innocent man.
[Dm] _ [Gm] Well, don't trust a [C] soul and old backwoods [F] southern lawyer.
[Dm] _ [Gm] Cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains [Fm] on his hands.
[Bbm] Well, they hung my [Ab] brother before I could [Bbm] see, the tracks he [Eb] saw while on his way [Bbm] to
Andy's [Ab] house, in fact that [Bbm] night were mine.
_ And his cheap wife had never left town, and that's one [Eb] body that'll never be [Bbm] found.
See, little [Fm] sister don't miss when she [Bbm] aims her gun.
_ _ [Gm] That's the [Am] night that the lights went [F] out in Georgia.
[Dm] _ _ [Gm] That's the night [Am] that they haunted the [F] innocent man.
[Dm] _ [Gm] Well, don't trust a soul [C] and old backwoods [F] southern lawyer.
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