Key: E
Introduction: E5 E5 E5 E5 D A
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Well, I caught my wife with another man
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And it cost me ninety-nine
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On a prison farm in Georgia
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Close to the Florida line
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Well, I' ve been here for two long years
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I finally made the warden my friend
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And so he sentenced me to a life of ease
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taking care of Ol' Red
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Now Ol' Red he' s the damnedest dog
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that I' ve ever seen
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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 to get past
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The gators and the quicksand beds
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But all these years that I' ve been here
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Ain' t nobody got past Red
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come on somebody why don' t you run
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Ol' Reds 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
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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
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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
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And I' d take Ol' Red for his evening run
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I' d just drop him off and wait
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come on somebody why don' t you run
D E
Ol' Reds itchin' to have a little fun
Get my lantern, get my gun
D E
Red' ll have you treed ' fore the mornin' comes
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Now Ol' Red got real used to seeing
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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 till the time got right
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Well, I made my run with the evenin' sun
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And I smiled when I heard ' em turn Red out
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' Cause I was headed north to Tennessee
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And Ol' Red was headed south
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come on somebody why don' t you run
D E
Ol' Reds 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
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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