Chords for The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

[Gm] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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He was on his way [Bb] home from candle top [Cm] been two weeks [F] gone
And he thought he'd [Cm] stop at webs and [Gm] have him a drink for he [Cm] went on to her
And _ he [F] wolo said hello.
[Cm] He said [F] I watched the wind [Cm] wall said sit down.
I [Gm] got some bad news.
[Cm] That's gonna hurt
Said I'm your best [Bb] friend, and you know that's [Cm] right, but your young [F] bride ain't home tonight
[Cm] Since you've been [Gm] gone.
She's been seeing that [Cm] ain't this boy sense _
Now he got [Bb] mad and he saw [Cm] rain and he said [F] boy, don't you lose you [Cm] had cause to tell you the [Gm] truth
I've been [Cm] with her myself
[C] _
_ That's [D] the night that the lights went [G] out in [Em] georgia
_ [Am] That's the [D] night that they [Am] hung an [G] innocent man
[Em] _
[Am] But don't trust your soul [D] to no backwoods [G] southern lawyer
[Em] _
[G] [Am] Cause the judge in the town [D] got blessings [Gm] on his head
[Cm] Well, andy got scared and left [Bb] the bar
[Cm] Walking on [F] home cause he didn't live far [Cm] you see and he didn't [Gm] have any friends and he just [Cm] lost him
[F] Brother [Cm] thought his [Bb] wife must have left [Cm] town.
So he went [F] home and finally found [Cm] the only thing daddy [Gm] had left him.
That [Cm] was a gun _
He went [Bb] off to andy's house
[Cm] Slipping through the [F] backwoods
Came [Cm] upon [Gm] some tracks too small for [Cm] andy to make _
He looked through the [Bb] screen at the back porch [Cm] door and he saw [F] andy lying on [Cm] the floor on a puddle of [Gm] blood
And [Cm] he started to shake
_ [Am] Georgia [D] patrol wasn't making their [G] rounds.
So he fired a shot just to flag him [Am] down a big belly
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [Cm] _ [F] Sheriff
And [Cm] said sufferers [Gm] waiting at home and I [Cm] gotta get to it
[C] _ [Am] That's the [D] night that the lights were [G] out in georgia
[Em] _
_ [Am] That's the [D] night that they hung an [G] innocent man
[Em]
But [Am] don't trust your soul [D] to no backwoods [G] southern lawyer
[Em] Cause [Am] the judge in the [D] town's got blessings [G] on his head
[Cm] Well, they hung my [Bb] brother before I could say [Cm] the tracks he [F] saw
On his [C] way to andy's [Gm] house and back that [Cm] night with mine _
And his cheating wife [F] had never left town [Cm] that's one body [F] that'll never be found [Cm] you see little sister [Gm] don't miss when she
[Cm] aims her gun
[C]
That's [Am] the night [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em]
that [Am] _ [D] they hung an innocent [G] man
That's the night that they hung an innocent man
[Am] But don't trust your [D] soul to no [G] backwoods southern lawyer
[Em] Cause [Am] the judge in the [D] town's got blessings [G] on his head _ _
[Am] That's the [Dm] night that they [G] hung an innocent man
_ [Em] _ _
[Am] That's the night [D] that they [G] innocent man, _ [Am] but don't trust your [D] soul to no _ [G] backwoods
Cause [Em] _ [Am] the judge in the [D] town's got blessings [Gm] on his head _ _
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