Old Red Chords

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Intro

E D A

EWell I caught my wife with another man

 And it Dcost meA ninetyE-nine

EOn a prison farm in Georgia

 Close to the Florida Bline

EWell I’ve been here for two long years

DI finally made the Awarden my Efriend

EAnd so he sentenced me to a life of ease

BTaking care of Ol’ ERed

Now Ol’ Red he’s the damndest dog

That I’ve ever seen

Got a nose that can smell a two day trail

He’s a four legged tracking machine

You can consider yourself mighty lucky to get past

The gators and the quicksand beds

But all these years that I been here

Ain’t nobody got past Red

Chorus

EAnd the warden sang,

E7Come on somebEody E7why don’t you rEun

E7Ol’ Red’s iEtchin to hBave a little fEun

E7Get my lEantern, gE7et my gEun

E7Red’ll have you trEeed ‘fore the mBorning cEomes

E D A

Well I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter

To my cousin up in Tennessee

Oh and he brought down a blue tick hound

She was pretty as she could be

Well the penned her up in the swampland

About a mile just south of the gate

And I’d take Ol’ Red for his evening run

I’d just drop him off and wait

EAnd the warden sang,

E7Come on somebEody E7why don’t you rEun

E7Ol’ Red’s iEtchin to hBave a little fEun

E7Get my lEantern, gE7et my gEun

E7Red’ll have you trEeed ‘fore the mBorning cEomes

E D A

Now Ol’ Red got real used to seeing

His lady every night

And so I kept him away for three or four days

And waited til the time got right

Well I made my run with the evening sun

And I smiled when I heard ‘em turn Red out

Cause I was headed north to Tennessee

And Ol’ Red was headed south

EAnd the warden sang,

E7Come on somebEody E7why don’t you rEun

E7Ol’ Red’s iEtchin to hBave a little fEun

E7Get my lEantern, gE7et my gEun

E7Red’ll have you trEeed ‘fore the mBorning cEomes

E D A

ENow there’s red hair blue ticks all in the south

ELove got me in here and lBove got me oEut

The END!