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#1.
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He was on his way home from Candletop..he'd been two 
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weeks gone and he thought he'd stop, at Webb's and 
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have him a drink before he went home to her.
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Andy Wardlow said, Jed, hello, and he said, hi, what's
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doin', Woz?
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He said, sit down, I got some bad news, it's gonna hurt.



#2.
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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..since you been 
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gone she's been seein' that aimless boy, Seth.
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Well, he got mad and he saw red, and Andy said, boy, 
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don'tcha lose your head, cause to tell you the truth, I 
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been with her myself.



CHORUS:
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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.
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Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer.
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Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands.



#3.
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Well, Andy got scared and left the bar and went walkin' on 
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home cause he didn't live far.
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You see, Andy didn't have many friends and he'd just lost 
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him one.
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And brother thought his wife must'a left town, so he went home 
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and finally found the only thing Papa had left him, and that was 
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a gun.



#4.
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And he went off to Andy's house, slippin' through the backwoods 
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quiet as a mouse..came upon some tracks too small for Andy to make.
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He looked through the screen at the back-porch door, and he saw 
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Andy lyin' on the floor in a puddle of blood and he started to shake.



#5.
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Well, the Georgia Patrol was makin' their rounds, so he fired a shot 
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just to flag 'em down, and a big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and 
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said, why'd ya do it?
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And the judge said, guilty, in a make-believe trial, slapped the 
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sheriff on the back with a smile, and said, supper's waitin' at home 
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and I gotta get to it.



CHORUS:
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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.
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Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer.
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Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands.



#6.
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Well, they hung my brother before I could say that the tracks he saw 
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while on his way to Andy's house, out back, that night were mine.
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And his cheatin' wife had never left town and that's one body that'll 
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never be found..see, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun.




CHORUS:
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That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia (whoa-oh.)
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That's the night that they hung an innocent man (uh-huh-huh.)
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Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer.
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Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands..(Fade.)