This is about the song's lyrics as well as Reba's video version.
The sister's story is full of inconsistencies. 1)murder trial's even back then were allways a trial by jury so the judge could not hand down a guilty verdict prejudice or no prejudice because of his relationship with Raymond's wife. In Reba's version in the video the sister confesses to be the killer and that Raymond pleadeed guilty. If his plea was in fact a guilty one then in front of a jury he would have had to plead guilty and then the judge, if he accepts it, would tell the jury to deliver a verdict of guilty, and the 'backwoods southern lawyer' could not be called incompetent for allowing his client to plead guilty if he refused advice to plead not guilty. 2) After leaving the bar after Raymond Andy would have had to reach home meet and have sex with Raymond's wife, the sister would have then found them together, shot and killed them and get rid of the body and then come back to finish the job, all in the time it would take Raymond who left the bar first to get home, get a gun and take a short cut to Andy's house. how plausibile is this especially since Andy obviously knows that Raymond knows about the affair. 3) how do they even know that the wife is dead since in the song and the video the sister admits to killing her and getting rid of the body which no one has found. Raymond assumed that she left town, he does not even know that she is dead, so how could the judge's relationship with the wife affect his judicial decision when the only victim they have is Andy who never even mentions that the judge was also sleeping with the wife, I doubt the judge is Sam Amos. 4) Raymond plead guilty to save his sister so he knew that she was the one who made the foot prints (this is where the video differed from the lyrics, but to say she did not have time to tell Raymond that they were her foot prints they would not have allowed her to see him at any time after he was arrested.) Ther was absolutely nothing stopping her from confessing to the murders in the video since he would not be convicted immediately upon arrest. And what does trusting the lawyer have to do with the judge being guilty of adultery, there is no mention that the lawyer even did anything wrong. She should blame the hanging death of her innocent brother where it belongs, and that is upon herself, she was the only criminally guilty party and did absolutely nothing to prevent her brother's death. That is just my take on the song. Any comment on my comment is welcomed whether good or bad. P.S. Andy left the bar feeling so scared for himself because of what he told Raymond yet still went home to put some loving on the wife, get real.
This is about the song's lyrics as well as Reba's video version. The sister's story is full of inconsistencies. 1)murder trial's even back then were allways a trial by jury so the judge could not hand down a guilty verdict prejudice or no prejudice because of his relationship with Raymond's wife. In Reba's version in the video the sister confesses to be the killer and that Raymond pleadeed guilty. If his plea was in fact a guilty one then in front of a jury he would have had to plead guilty and then the judge, if he accepts it, would tell the jury to deliver a verdict of guilty, and the 'backwoods southern lawyer' could not be called incompetent for allowing his client to plead guilty if he refused advice to plead not guilty. 2) After leaving the bar after Raymond Andy would have had to reach home meet and have sex with Raymond's wife, the sister would have then found them together, shot and killed them and get rid of the body and then come back to finish the job, all in the time it would take Raymond who left the bar first to get home, get a gun and take a short cut to Andy's house. how plausibile is this especially since Andy obviously knows that Raymond knows about the affair. 3) how do they even know that the wife is dead since in the song and the video the sister admits to killing her and getting rid of the body which no one has found. Raymond assumed that she left town, he does not even know that she is dead, so how could the judge's relationship with the wife affect his judicial decision when the only victim they have is Andy who never even mentions that the judge was also sleeping with the wife, I doubt the judge is Sam Amos. 4) Raymond plead guilty to save his sister so he knew that she was the one who made the foot prints (this is where the video differed from the lyrics, but to say she did not have time to tell Raymond that they were her foot prints they would not have allowed her to see him at any time after he was arrested.) Ther was absolutely nothing stopping her from confessing to the murders in the video since he would not be convicted immediately upon arrest. And what does trusting the lawyer have to do with the judge being guilty of adultery, there is no mention that the lawyer even did anything wrong. She should blame the hanging death of her innocent brother where it belongs, and that is upon herself, she was the only criminally guilty party and did absolutely nothing to prevent her brother's death. That is just my take on the song. Any comment on my comment is welcomed whether good or bad. P.S. Andy left the bar feeling so scared for himself because of what he told Raymond yet still went home to put some loving on the wife, get real.