Ol' Red Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Dm][Dm]
[Dm][Dm][C][G]

[Verse 1]
Well, I [Dm]caught my wife with another man
And it [C]cost me [G]ninety-nine[Dm]
On a prison farm in Georgia
Close to the Florida [A]line
Well, [Dm]I'd been here for two long years
I [C]finally made the [G]warden my [Dm]friend
And so he sentenced me to a life of ease
[A]Takin' care of Ol' Red[Dm]

[Verse 2]
Now, Ol' [Dm]Red, he's the damnedest dog
[C]That I've eve[G]r see[Dm]n
Got a nose that can smell a two-day trail
He's a four legged tracking' [A]machine
You can con[Dm]sider yourself mighty lucky
To get past the [C]gators
and the [G]quicksand [Dm]beds
But all these years that I've been here
Ain't [Am]nobody got past [Dm]Red

[Chorus 1]
And the warden sang
[D]Come on somebody, why don't you run?
Ol' Red's itchin' to [C]have a little [D]fun
Get my lantern, get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the
[C]mornin' [D]comes
[D][C][G]

[Verse 3]
Well, I [D]paid off the guard
and I slipped out a letter
To my [C]cousin up in [G]Tennessee[D]
Oh and he brought down a blue tick hound
She was pretty as she could [A]be
Well they [D]penned her up in the swampland
'Bout a [C]mile just [G]south of the [D]gate
And I'd take Ol' Red for his evening run
I'd [A]just drop him [D]off and wait

[Chorus 2]
And the warden sang
[D]Come on somebody, why don't you run?
Ol' Red's itchin' to [C]have a little [D]fun
Get my lantern, get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the
[C]mornin' [D]comes[C][G]
[D][C][G]

[Verse 4]
Now Ol' [D]Red got real used to seein'
His [C]lady [G]every [D]night
And so I kept him away for three or four days
And waited 'til the time got [A]right
Well, I [D]made my run with the evening sun
And I [C]smiled when I [G]heard 'em turn [D]Red out
'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee
And Ol' [A]Red was headed [D]south

[Chorus 3]
And the warden sang
[D]Come on somebody, why don't you run?
Ol' Red's itchin' to [C]have a little [D]fun
Get my lantern, get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the [C]mornin' [D]comes

[Outro 1]
Now there's [D]red-haired blue ticks
all in the South
Love got me in here and [C]love got me [D]out