The Night The Lights Went out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence and later Reba McEntire

"His cheatin' wife never left town.

That's one body that'll never be found.

You see, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun."

Ms. Reba McEntire needs no introduction. She is a wonderfully Ginger Country Queen. We love her.

We also love her 1991 version of the 1972 classic "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence.

The first time I heard this song I was very little riding in the car with my mom and Aunt Jane, and they were talking about how haunting the lyrics were. In fact, I remember getting a little scared by the lyrics, but then again I was probably 4 or 5 at the time, and Ms. Lawrence has a haunting voice.

Now that I'm older, I do prefer Reba's version. It's just amazing.

This classic Southern Gothic song tells the tail of a man who just found out his wife had cheated on him. He stalks over to her lover's house, wanting to kill him, only to find him already dead. He is hung for the murder anyhow, because no one believed him when he said he didn't kill his wife's lover. Turns out his little sister killed the cheating wife and her lover for what they did to her brother.

It's one of those stories that stays with you.

The song became a Number 1 hit for Vicki Lawrence, who recorded the song herself after other artists like Char turned it down. Reba's version reached #12, but her music video for the song got a lot more airplay, and implied a lot more about the story than just the lyrics themselves.