<P> Returning home from a two - week trip to a place called Candletop, a man, identified only as "Brother", stops for a drink at Webb's Bar before going home to his wife . While there, he encounters his friend Andy, who informs him that Brother's wife has had affairs with both Andy and another man, "that Amos boy, Seth ." Brother leaves the bar angry, and a frightened Andy makes his way home . </P> <P> Brother goes home to find his gun, presuming his wife's continued absence was because she had left town, and quietly makes his way through the woods to Andy's house . On the way there he finds a set of footprints leading up to and back from the house, but they look too small to have been made by Andy . Arriving at Andy's back door, Brother looks through the screen and, to his horror, finds Andy's dead body . To get the attention of the Georgia State Patrol, Brother fires a shot in the air; the officer on patrol mistakenly assumes that the gunshot was the one that killed Andy and arrests Brother for murder . In a show trial, the judge wastes little time declaring Brother guilty of Andy's murder and then sentencing him to death by hanging, which is carried out in short order . </P> <P> The story wraps up as the narrator, revealing herself as Brother's younger sister, confesses that it was she who had left the footprints that her brother had encountered on his way to Andy's house, and that she had not only shot and killed Andy with her own gun, but the adulterous wife as well, in her case disposing of the body in a way that no one would ever find it . </P> <P> In the song's chorus, Little Sister blames the Georgia criminal justice system for 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 ." </P>

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