Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia! Harmonica Tabs

Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia!

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He was on his way home from Can-dle-top,

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been two weeks gone

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and he’d thought he’d stop at Web’s

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and have him a drink ‘fore he went home to her.

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An-dy Wo-lo said “hel-lo”.

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He said “Hi, what’s do-in’?”

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Wo said “Sit down I got some bad news,

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it’s gon-na hurt”.

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He said “I’m your best friend

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and you know that’s right.

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But your young bride ain’t home to-night.

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Since you been gone

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she’s been see’n that A-mos boy Seth”.

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Now he got mad and he saw red.

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An-dy said “boy don’tcha lose your head,

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cause to tell you the truth

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I’ve been with her my-self”.

Chorus: (Change to Key of G)

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That’s the night

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that the lights went out in Geor-gia.

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That’s the night

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that they hung an in-no-cent man.

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Well don’t trust your soul

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to no back-woods sou-thern law-yer.

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Cause the judge in the town’s

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got blood-stains on his hands.

Verse 2:
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Well, (Change to Key of Eb)

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An-dy got scared and left the bar.

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An’ walk-in’ on home ’cause he did-n’t live far;

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you see An-dy did-n’t have ma-ny friends,

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and he’d just lost him one.

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Bro-ther thought his wife must-‘ve left town,

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so he went on home and fin-al-ly found

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the on-ly thing Dad-dy left him

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and that was a gun.

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He went off to An-dy’s house,

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slip-pin’ through the back-woods

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qui-et as a mouse.

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Came up-on some tracks

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too small for An-dy to make.

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He looked through the screen

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at the back porch door

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an’ he saw An-dy ly-in’ on the floor

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in a pud-dle of blood

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and he start-ed to shake.

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The (start key of “G”)

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Geor-gia pa-trol was a mak-in’ their rounds

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so he fired a shot just to flag ’em down.

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A big bel-lied sher-iff grabbed his gun

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and said “Why’d you do it?”

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The (back to Eb)

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judge said “guil-ty” in a make be-lieve trial.

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Slapped the sher-iff on the back with a smile

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and said “Sup-per’s wait-in’ at home

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and I got to get to it”.

Chorus (change to key of “G”)

Verse 3:

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Well they hung my bro-ther

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be-fore I could say

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the tracks he saw

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while on his way to An-dy’s house

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and back that night were mine.

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And his cheat-in’ wife had ne-ver left town,

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and that’s one bo-dy that-‘ll ne-ver be found

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cause lit-tle sis-ter don’t miss

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when she aims her gun.

Chorus (Repeat 2 times in Key of Eb, then a 3rd time in the Key of G)