Intro: E E7 E Repeat 3 times
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Well I caught my wife with another man
D A E
And it cost me ninety-nine
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On a prison farm in Georgia
B
Close to the Florida line
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Well I’ve been here for two long years
D A E
I finally made the warden my friend
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And so he sentenced me to a life of ease
B E
Taking care of Ol’ Red
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Now Ol’ Red he’s the damndest dog
D A E
That I’ve ever seen
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Got a nose that can smell a two day trail
B
He’s a four legged tracking machine
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You can consider yourself mighty lucky to get past
D A E
The gators and the quicksand beds
B E
But all these years that I been here
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Ain’t nobody got past Red
Chorus:
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And the warden sang,
E7 E E7 E
Come on somebody why don’t you run
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Ol’ Red’s itchin to have a little fun
E7 E E7 E
Get my lantern, get my gun
E7 E B E
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
D A E
To my cousin up in Tennessee
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Oh and he brought down a blue tick hound
B
She was pretty as she could be
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Well the penned her up in the swampland
D A E
About a mile just south of the gate
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And I’d take Ol’ Red for his evening run
B E
I’d just drop him off and wait
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And the warden sang,
E7 E E7 E
Come on somebody why don’t you run
E7 E B E
Ol’ Red’s itchin to have a little fun
E7 E E7 E
Get my lantern, get my gun
E7 E B E
Red’ll have you treed ‘fore the morning comes
E D A
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Now Ol’ Red got real used to seeing
D A E
His lady every night
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And so I kept him away for three or four days
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And waited til the time got right
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Well I made my run with the evening sun
D A E
And I smiled when I heard ‘em turn Red out
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Cause I was headed north to Tennessee
And Ol’ Red was headed south
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And the warden sang,
E7 E E7 E
Come on somebody why don’t you run
E7 E B E
Ol’ Red’s itchin to have a little fun
E7 E E7 E
Get my lantern, get my gun
E7 E B E
Red’ll have you treed ‘fore the morning comes
E D A
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Now there’s red hair blue ticks all in the south
E B E
Love got me in here and love got me out
