The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia Lyrics

Lyric discussion by jeffrey111 

Cover art for The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia lyrics by Vicki Lawrence

I love this track, but the story makes NO sense:

1.) Andy does Seth (his best friend) a solid by tipping him off to his wife's cheating on him with Amos, and confesses his own indiscretion with her. And Seth repays this honesty by trying to kill Andy? Shouldn't he be angrier at Amos? (I won't even touch the "Amos & Andy" thing.)

2.) Little sister decides to off Andy (again, poor honest Andy, not Amos) on the very same night that her brother comes home and goes gunning for Andy himself. She couldn't have set him up better if she tried.

3.) "They hung my brother before I could say..." What? Even a "make-believe" trial should've given her plenty of time to say, "Uh... judge?... by the way, I did it, not my brother."

UNLESS... Little Sister was abused by her brother (who was probably a drunk -- first place he hits on returning to town is the bar) and this is her genius plan to get him back AND take out a few other weasels while she's at it. (It is the South, after all.)

Again, Seth is the last name of "The Amos Boy." Andy Wolloe is the name of the best friend "He" (The only name given for the new husband of the cheating "Young Bride") We do not know that "He" went to Andy's house to kill him, just that he had a gun. Maybe the gun was for his own protection when he went to Andy's house to confront him about the affair. "He" may have gone there to elicit the help of his "Best Friend" in order to get even with his "Cheating Wife" for seducing both Seth...

@jeffrey111

I understand it to be that Seth Amos is one of the guys cheating with the wife and is not the main character (Brother.)

@jeffrey111 Again, Seth is the brother, NOT the Amos boy. The exchange in the bar was Seth and Andy talking:

Andy Wolloe said "Hello" And he said "Hi, what's doin', Wo?" "Seth, sit down, I got some bad news, it's gonna hurt" He said "I'm your best friend and you know that's right"

Andy tells Seth to sit down so he can give him bad news a time honoured custom that make bad news much easier to take.

I will agree that it is possible that his wife wasn't a whore, maybe...