Ol' Red chords by Blake Shelton (Official Version)
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well, I caught my wife with another man
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And it cost me ninety-nine
On a prison farm in Georgia
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Close to the Florida line
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Well, I'd been here for two long years
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I finally made the warden my friend
And so he sentenced me to a life of ease
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Takin' care of Ol' Red
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Verse 2
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Now, Ol' Red, he's the damnedest dog
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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
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You can consider yourself mighty lucky
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To get past the gators
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and the quicksand beds
But all these years that I've been here
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Ain't nobody got past Red
Chorus 1
And the warden sang
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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
Red'll have you treed 'fore the
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mornin' comes
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Verse 3
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Well, I paid off the guard
and I slipped out a letter
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To my cousin up in Tennessee
Oh and he brought down a blue tick hound
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She was pretty as she could be
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Well they penned her up in the swampland
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'Bout a mile just south of the gate
And I'd take Ol' Red for his evening run
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I'd just drop him off and wait
Chorus 2
And the warden sang
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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
Red'll have you treed 'fore the
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mornin' comes
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Verse 4
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Now Ol' Red got real used to seein'
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His lady every night
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
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And I smiled when I heard 'em turn Red out
'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee
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And Ol' Red was headed south
Chorus 3
And the warden sang
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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 mornin' comes
Outro 1
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Now there's red-haired blue ticks
all in the South
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Love got me in here and love got me out
Ol' Red
Blake Shelton
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