Ol' Red Lyrics - Blake Shelton

1 Well I caught my wife with another man

2 And it cost me ninety nine

3 On a prison farm in Georgia

4 Close to the Florida line

5 Well I'd been here for two long years

6 I finally made the warden my friend

7 And so he sentenced me to a life of ease

8 Taking care of Ol' Red

9 Now Ol' Red he's the damnedest dog that I've ever seen

10 Got a nose that can smell a two day trail

11 He's a four legged tracking machine

12 You can consider yourself mighty lucky

13 To get past the gators and the quicksand beds

14 But all these years that I've been here

15 Ain't nobody got past Red

16 And the warden sang

17 Come on somebody

18 Why don't you run

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

20 Get my lantern

21 Get my gun

22 Red'll have you treed before the mornin' comes

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

24 To my cousin up in Tennessee

25 Oh, and he brought down a blue tick hound

26 She was pretty as she could be

27 Well they penned her up in the swampland

28 'Bout a mile just south of the gate

29 And I'd take Ol' Red for his evening run

30 I'd just drop him off and wait

31 And the warden sang

32 Come on somebody

33 Why don't you run

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

35 Get my lantern

36 Get my gun

37 Red'll have you treed before the mornin' comes

38 Now Ol' Red got real used to seeing

39 His lady every night

40 And so I kept him away for three or four days

41 And waited till the time got right

42 Well I made my run with the evenin' sun

43 And I smiled when I heard 'em turn Red out

44 'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee

45 And Ol' Red was headed south

46 And the warden sang

47 Come on somebody

48 Why don't you run

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

50 Get my lantern

51 Get my gun

52 Red'll have you treed before the mornin' comes

53 Now there's red haired blue ticks all in the South

54 Love got me in here and love got me out