I got E! on in the background with SNL re-runs and they just used this song--which I just loved!
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Vicki Lawrence
He was on his way home from Candletop
Been two weeks gone and the thought he's stop
At Web's and have him a drink 'fore he went
home to her
Andy Wo-Lo said "Hello"
He said "Hi what's a doing"
Wo said "Sit down I got some bad news
it's gonna hurt"
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 you lose your head
Cause to tell you the truth I've been with
her myself"
That's the night that the lights went out
in Georgia
That's the night that they hung
and innocent man
Well don't trust your soul to no back woods
southern lawyer
Cause the judge in the town's got
bloodstains on his hands
Andy got scared and left the bar
Walking on home cause 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
Papa had left him and that was a gun
He went off to Andy'd house
Slipping through the back woods quiet as
a mouse
Came upon some tracks too small for Andy
to make
He looked through the screen at the back
porch door
And he saw Andy lying on the floor
In a puddle of blood and he started
to shake
The Georgia patrol was a making their
rounds
So he fired a shot just to flag em down
And a big bellied sherrif grabbed his gun
and said
"Why'd you do it?"
That's the night that the lights went out
in Georgia
That's the night that they hung an
innocent man
Well don't trust your soul to no back woods
southern lawyer
Cause the judge in the town's got
bloodstains 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
And 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
Well don't trust your soul to no backwoods
southern lawyer
Cause the judge in the town's got
bloodstains on his hands
That's the night that the lights went out
in Georgia Whoa-oh-oh
That's the night that they hung an
innocent man Whoa-oh-yeah
Well don't trust you soul to no backwoods
southern lawyer
Cause the judge in the town's got
bloodstains on his hands
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
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