Oh, I'm plenty big on metaphors. I also like similes, symbols, allegories and analogies, but I want someone to demonstrate how this song is about "Sherman and his nasty adventures.":
He was on his way home from candletop
Been two weeks gone and he thought he'd stop
At webs and have him a drink for he went home to her
Andy wo-lo said hello
He said hi whats a doing
Wo said sit down I got some bad news thats gonna hurt
Said Im your best friend and you know thats right
But your young bride aint home tonight
Since you been gone shes been seeing that amos boy seth
He got mad and he saw red
Andy said boy dont you lose your head
Cause to tell you the truth I've been with her myself
Chorus: Thats the night the lights went out in georgia
Thats the night that they hung an innocent man
Dont trust your soul to no back woods southern lawyer
Cause the judge in the towns got bloodstains on his hand
Andy got scared and left the bar
Walking on home cause he didnt live far you see
Andy didn't have many friends and he just lost him one
Brother thought his wife must've left town
So he went home and finally found the only thing
Daddy had left him and that was a gun
He went off to andys house
Slipping through the back woods 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 was making their rounds
So he fired a shot just to flag em down
And a big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said
Why'd you do it?
The judge said guilty in a make believe trial
Slapped the sherrif on the back with a smile and said
Suppers waiting at home and I got to get to it
Chorus
They hung my brother before I could say
The tracks he saw while on his way
To andys house and back that night were mine
And his cheatin wife had never left town
And thats one body thatll be found
You see little sister dont miss when she aims her gun
I mean, just for a start, who is the Sherman character in the song? The victim? The brother? The sister? The cop? The judge? Who?
The point is that the story in the song was not the only time that the "lights went out in Georgia" for innocent men.
I could go on a little more, but Dancing with the Stars and NCIS are both on and I have to focus to switch back and forth and follow them.
don't you realize you are becoming yet another DUMB-bunny laughingstock to the intelligent people here???
you'll be welcomed on DU, with your IGNORANT opinions. why not head over there???
free dixie,sw