Ol'Red
Blake Shelton

Submitted By Tiny man
Capo 1st Fret


[Intro]     E           D   A    E    B

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Well I caught my wife with another man and it cost me ninety-nine on a prison farm in Georgia
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Close to the Florida line well I've been here for two long years I finally made the warden my friend
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And so he sentenced me to a life of ease taking care of Ol' Red


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Now Ol' Red he's the dandiest dog___ that I've ever seen got a nose that can smell a two-day trail
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He's a four-legged tracking machine you can consider yourself mighty lucky to get past
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The gators and the quicksand beds But all these years that I been here ain?t nobody got past Red


[Chorus]
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And the warden sang, come on somebody why don't you run
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Ol' Red's itchin to have a little fun Get my lantern, get my gun
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Red'll have you treed 'fore the morning comes____________


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Well I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter to my cousin up in Tennessee Oh and he brought
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Down a blue tick hound She was pretty as she could be Well the penned her up in the swampland
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About a mile just south of the gate and I'd take Ol' Red for his evening run I'd just drop him off and
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Wait


[Chorus]
E                          E7       E           E7              E
And the warden sang, come on somebody why don't you run
E7        E         B             E   E7      E        E7     E
Ol' Red's itchin to have a little fun Get my lantern, get my gun
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Red'll have you treed 'fore the morning comes_________________________


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Now Ol' Red got real used to seeing His lady every night and so I kept him away for three or four
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Days and waited til the time got right Well I made my run with the evening sun and I smiled when I
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Heard 'em turn Red out Cause I was headed north to Tennessee And Ol' Red was headed south


[Chorus]
E                          E7       E           E7              E
And the warden sang, come on somebody why don't you run
E7        E         B             E   E7      E        E7     E
Ol' Red's itchin to have a little fun Get my lantern, get my gun
E7                E                B         E
Red'll have you treed 'fore the morning comes Now there's red hair
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Blue ticks all in the south Love got me in here and love got me out