The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia chords by Reba Mcentire

Chords with lyrics

INTRO:
A minorAm  A minorAm  A minorAm  A minorAm

    A minorAm          G+G
He was on his way home from Candle-top
   A minorAm          D MajorD
Been two weeks gone and he thought he stop
  A minorAm          G+G             A minorAm
at Web's and have him a drink 'for he went home to her
A minorAm     G+G        A minorAm          D MajorD
Andy-Willow said hello, and he said 'Hi, what's doing', Woah
     A minorAm         G+G           A minorAm
he said sit down, I got some bad news that's gonna hurt.
   A minorAm              G+G
Said I'm-your-best-friend and you-know-that's-right
     A minorAm        D MajorD
But your young bride ain't home tonight
A minorAm                G+G           A minorAm
Since-you've-been-gone she's-been-seeing that Amos boy, Seth
A minorAm       G+G       A minorAm            D MajorD
He got mad and he saw red and Andy said, Boy, don't you lose your head
     A minorAm          G+G            A minorAm
Cause to tell you the truth,  I've been with her my-self

CHORUS:
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    That's the night that the    lights went out in   Georgia
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    That's the night that they   hung an innocent    man
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    Don't trust your soul to no   backwoods Southern   lawyer
         G minorGm           BB          E minorEm
    Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands

A minorAm         G+G
Andy got scared and left the bar
A minorAm            D MajorD
Walking on home ‘cause he didn't live far
    A minorAm          G+G              A minorAm
You see-Andy didn't have many friends and he just lost him one
  A minorAm            G+G
My Brother thought his wife must've left town
  A minorAm        D MajorD
So he went home and finally found
  A minorAm         G+G            A minorAm
the only thing Papa had left him and that was a gun
A minorAm       G+G
He went off to Andy's house
A minorAm                D MajorD
Slipping through the back-woods quiet as a mouse
A minorAm             G+G        A minorAm
Came upon some tracks too-small for Andy to make
  A minorAm                G+G
He looked-through-the screen-at-the-back-porch door
  A minorAm     D MajorD
and He saw Andy lying on the floor
   A minorAm        G+G           A minorAm
In a puddle of blood,   and he started to shake.

Bridge:
  G minorGm         BB               E MajorE          E MajorE
The Georgia Patrol was making their rounds   so he fired a shot just to flag them down
 G minorGm               BB              E minorEm
A augmentedA big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said,   Why'd you do it?

  A minorAm           G+G
The judge said guilty in a make-believe trial
A minorAm             D MajorD
Slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile
     A minorAm         G+G           A minorAm
And said supper’s waiting at home and I got to get to it


CHORUS:
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    That's the night that the    lights went out in   Georgia
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    That's the night that they   hung an innocent    man
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    Don't trust your soul to no   backwoods Southern   lawyer
         G minorGm           BB          E minorEm
    Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands

     A minorAm         G+G
Well They hung my brother be-fore I could say
  A minorAm         D MajorD
the tracks he saw while on this way
  A minorAm       G+G          A minorAm
to Andy's house and back that night were mine
  A minorAm          G+G
And his cheatin' wife had never left town
   A minorAm           D MajorD
and That's one body that'll never be found
     A minorAm         G+G            A minorAm
You see, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun

 CHORUS:
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    That's the night that the    lights went out in   Georgia
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    That's the night that they   hung an innocent    man
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    Don't trust your soul to no   backwoods Southern   lawyer
         G minorGm           BB          E minorEm
    Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands

    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    That's the night that the    lights went out in   Georgia
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    That's the night that they   hung an innocent    man
    G minorGm                BB           E MajorE
    Don't trust your soul to no   backwoods Southern   lawyer
         G minorGm           BB          E MajorE
    Cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands