cue the organ music
[McDonald Carey voice] “And what of Billy Joe McAllister? And what was thrown off the Tallahatchee bridge that night?”[/McDonald Carey voice]
Sorry, y’all, but I just love “story songs”. 
Quasi “Teen Angel” Modem
In Georgia, something like this DID happens 60 years old, though the killer was black. Last year the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board issued a posthumous pardon to a woman who was executed for killing her white employer after a trial that lasted just one day. Her jury was … you guessed it, all white, all male. (Her lawyer is said to have spent part of the trial sleeping.) She was not found innocent, but the current Board felt her case cried out for clemency. She claimed she’d done it in self defense when her employer threatened her with an iron pipe. He was upset because she’d objected to all the raping of her he’d been doing.
Hell, 60 years ago we were still lynching people in Georgia!
So, I could buy similar shenanigans occurring in rural areas of Georgia right up to … the present day, actually. I’m afraid Georgia’s history wrt our justice system has not been a proud one, overall.
And another thing: Does Seth have a Death Wish, or is he just a nimrod? He finds his wife’s lover dead of a gunshot wound. He knows he’ll be one of the prime suspects. He’s standing there with a gun in his hand, having snuck through the woods in the middle of the night. He actually intended to commit murder.
So what does he do–marvel at his good fortune, and run away as fast as he can? No, he fires a shot to “flag down” the police, making sure that they’ll find him there with his gun.
I mean, come on. The guy deserved to be executed for stupidity.
C’mon. If we went around executing Georgians for stupidity, who would be left to serve in the legislature? Hell, who’d be around to VOTE for 'em?
(Why, yes, I am still kinda grumpy about my choices in the recent gubernatorial election. Spanky Ham vs. Jabba the Hutt. Damn.)
You know, I actually thought about all this last week when I happened to hear that damn song. Now I don’t need to think about it anymore. None of my Qs were really answered but at least I know there are no definitive answers.
Next subject- that damn “Angie Baby”… WAS SHE living in a world of make-believe or maybe WHAT?
Avtually, it must be said that pictures are hung, and people are hanged.
The earliest posts are often right on the money. The point of this detail was to show the judge was not a man of integrity as one would expect in a judge.
I was going to mention that. He grabbed his gun and sneaked off to Andy’s house. What was he going to do when he found him? Say, ‘Hey, look what daddy left me? Well, see ya.’?
This discussion is so goofy…Tom Dooley had to hang down his head again, in a long black veil, at Roses’s Catina,
Although,… a murder song thread might be interesting.
Okay.
[Charlie from Blazing Saddles] De said you was hung[/Cfbs]
[Sheriff Bart] And de was right![/SB]
Well, that’s what SHOULD be said, but in the song, it wasn’t. 
to be pedantic:
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if you are talking about death by hanging, either “hung” or “hanged” is correct usage.
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If you are talking about hanging something else, such as a picture, only “hung” is correct.
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“hanged” only ever correctly means death by hanging.
Thus it is wrong to say “he hanged a picture” but correct to say either “he was hung at dawn” or “he was hanged at dawn”
Vicki Lawrence? For years and years I’ve thought this song was sung by Reba McEntire.
And that’s the real question, isn’t it? How in the world did Carol Burnett’s sidekick get this song?
Her husband wrote it.
She was married to the songwriter.
Well, that’ll do it.
Reba did a remake of the original Vicki Lawrence {yes from the Carol Burnett show} hit.
I heard the song was offered to several prominent lady singers of the day including Cher and they all turned it down. Someone who believed in the song kept pushing it and Vicki wound up with her only Pop hit.
Rumor has it that *Sonny *turned it down, on Cher’s behalf and without her knowledge. I’d divorce the little fucker too.