Question

Write an essay on the topic of "the night the lights went out"​

Answer 1

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"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is a Southern Gothic song, of the murder ballad type, written and composed in 1972 by songwriter Bobby Russell and sung by Vicki Lawrence, an American pop music singer, actress, author, and comedian. Lawrence's version, from her 1973 album of the same name, was a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release. In addition to several other renditions, the song was again a hit in 1991 when Reba McEntire recorded it for her album For My Broken Heart. McEntire's version was a chart single as well, reaching number 12 on Hot Country Songs.

Returning home from a two-week trip to a place called Candletop, a man called "Brother" stops for a drink at Webb's Bar before going home to his wife. While at the bar he encounters his friend Andy Wolloe, who informs him that while he was gone his wife was having an affair with "that Amos boy, Seth", and then admits that he himself had been with her as well. Brother leaves the bar angry, and a frightened Andy makes his way home.

Assuming his wife had left town, Brother goes home to find the gun his father had left him and quietly makes his way through the backwoods to Andy's house. On the way there he notices a set of footprints leading to and from the house, but they are too small to have been made by Andy. Arriving at the back door, Brother finds Andy inside lying dead on the floor from a gunshot. In a panic, he fires a shot in the air to get the attention of the sheriff, only to find himself arrested for Andy's murder. In a show trial, the judge wastes little time declaring Brother guilty and sentences him to death by hanging, which is carried out in short order.

The story wraps up as the narrator identifies herself as Brother's "Little Sister" and reveals that it was her footprints that Brother saw on his way to Andy's house. Little Sister then admits that she had not only killed Andy with her own gun, but Brother's adulterous wife as well, disposing of the latter's body where she is certain nobody will ever find it.

In the song's chorus, Little Sister blames the local criminal justice system for her brother's death, warning the listener, "Don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer, 'cause the judge in the town's got blood stains on his hands."

Answer 2

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