He was on his way home from Candletop, been two weeks gone so he thought he'd stop at Webb's and have him a drink before he went home to her. Andy Warhol said hello, he said hi, what you doing Warhol, he said sit down I've got some bad news that's gonna hurt, he said I'm your best friend and you know that's right, but your young bride ain't home tonight, since you've been gone she's been seeing that Amos boy, he said, now he got mad and he's so red, Andy said boy don't you lose your head, cause I'll 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 an innocent man, said don't trust your soul to no backward 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 have left town, so he went home and finally found the only thing that he left him and that was a gun, he went off to Andy's house, slipping through the backwoods quiet as a mouse, came upon some tracks too small for Andy to make, he looked through the screen at the back porch door, he saw Andy lying on the floor in a puddle of blood and he started to shake, the Georgia patrol wasn't making his rounds, so he fired a shot just to flag him down, the big belly sheriff said why'd you do it, the judge said guilty in 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, it's a night that the lights went out in Georgia, it's a night that they hung an innocent man, so don't trust your soul to no backward southern lawyer, cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands, 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, that's one body that would never be found, we see little sister don't miss when she aims her gun, that's a night that the lights went out in Georgia, it's a night that they hung an innocent man, so don't trust your soul to no backward southern lawyer, cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands, that's a night that the lights went out in Georgia, it's a night that they hung an innocent man, so don't trust your soul to no backward southern lawyer, cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands, so