Ol' Red

Blake Shelton

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  P1:
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  S1:
  Well I caught my wife with another man 

  And it cost me ninety nine x---x---x---x 

  On a prison farm in Georgia 

  Close to the Florida line ----x---x---x 

  Well I'd been here for two long years 

  I finally made the warden my friend ----x---x---x 

  And so he sentenced me to a life of ease 

  Taking care of Ol' Red ----x---x---x 
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  S2:
  Now Ol' Red he's the damnedest dog  

  That I've ever seen x---x---x---x 

  Got a nose that can smell a two-day trail 

  He's a four-legged trackin' machine ----x---x---x 

  You can consider yourself mighty lucky 

  To get past the gators and the quicksand beds ----x---x---x 

  But all these years that I've been here 

  Ain't nobody got past Red
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  R1:
  And the warden sangs: Come on somebody, why don't you run 

  Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun 

  Get my lantern, get my gun 

  Red'll have you treed before the mor-nin' comes
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  S3:
  Well I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter 

  To my cousin up in Tennessee x---x---x---x 

  Oh and he brought down a blue tick hound 

  She was pretty as she could be ---x---x---x 

  Well they penned her up in the swampland 

  'Bout a mile just south of the gate ---x---x---x 

  And I'd take Ol' Red for his evenin' run 

  I'd just drop him off and wait
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  R1:
  And the warden sangs: Come on somebody, why don't you run 

  Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun 

  Get my lantern, get my gun 

  Red'll have you treed before the mor-nin' comes
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  S4:
  Now Ol' Red got real used to seein' 

  His lady every night x---x---x---x 

  And so I kept him away for three or four days 

  And waited till the time got right ---x---x---x 

  Well I made my run with the evenin' sun 

  And I smiled when I heard them turn Red out ---x---x---x 

  Cause I was headed north to Tennessee 

  And Ol' Red was headed south
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  R1:
  And the warden sangs: Come on somebody, why don't you run 

  Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun 

  Get my lantern, get my gun 

  Red'll have you treed before the mor-nin' comes
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  D1:
  Now there's red-haired blue ticks all in the South 

  Love got me in here and love got me out