The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia(Album Version) - Ray Conniff & The Singers

作词：Bobby Russell

作曲：Bobby Russell

He was on his way home from candletop

Been two weeks gone and he thought he'd stop

At Web's and have him a drink

For he went home to her

Andy Wo-Lo said hello

He said hi what's new

And Wo said sit down

I got some bad news that'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 myself

That's the night the lights went out in georgia

That's the night that they hung an innocent man

Don't trust your soul to no back woods southern lawyer

Cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hand

Well Andy got scared and left the bar

Walking on home cause he didn't live far 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's 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

Now the georgia patrol was making their rounds

And he fired a shot just to flag'em down

And the big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said

Why'd you do it

Well the judge said guilty on a make believe trial

Slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile

Said supper's waiting at home and I gotta get to it

That's the night the lights went out in georgia

That's the night that they hung an innocent man

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 cheating 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 the lights went out in Georgia

That's the night that they hung an innocent man

Don't trust your soul to no back woods Southern lawyer

Cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hand

That's the night the lights went out in Georgia

That's the night that they hung an innocent man

Don't trust your soul to no back woods Southern lawyer