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Ol’ Red Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I caught my wife with another man
It cost me ninety nine
Down in Georgia prison
Close to the Florida line
Well I'd been here for two long years
I finally made the warden my friend
He sentenced me to a life of ease
Taking care of Ol' Red
[Verse2]
Now Ol' Red he's the damnedest dog that I've ever seen
He's got a nose that can smell a two-day trail
He's a four-legged trackin' machine
You can consider yourself mighty lucky
To get past the gators and the quicksand beds
'Cause all these years that I've been here
Nobody got past Red
[Chorus]
Hear the warden sang
Come on somebody
Why don't you run
Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun
Get my lantern
Get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
I caught my wife with another man
It cost me ninety nine
Down in Georgia prison
Close to the Florida line
Well I'd been here for two long years
I finally made the warden my friend
He sentenced me to a life of ease
Taking care of Ol' Red
[Verse2]
Now Ol' Red he's the damnedest dog that I've ever seen
He's got a nose that can smell a two-day trail
He's a four-legged trackin' machine
You can consider yourself mighty lucky
To get past the gators and the quicksand beds
'Cause all these years that I've been here
Nobody got past Red
[Chorus]
Hear the warden sang
Come on somebody
Why don't you run
Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun
Get my lantern
Get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
[Verse 3]
I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter
To my cousin up in Tennessee
Now he brought down a blue tick hound
She was pretty as she could be
So we staked her up in the swampland
About a mile just south of the gate
And I'd take Ol' Red for his evenin' walk
Let him go and wait
[Chorus]
Hear the warden sang
Come on somebody
Why don't you run
Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun
Get my lantern
Get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
[Verse 4]
Now Ol' Red got real used to seein'
His lady fried every night
So I kept him away for three or four days
And waited 'til the time got right
Well I made my run with the evenin' sun
And I smiled when I heard they let Red out
'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee
And Ol' Red he was headed south
I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter
To my cousin up in Tennessee
Now he brought down a blue tick hound
She was pretty as she could be
So we staked her up in the swampland
About a mile just south of the gate
And I'd take Ol' Red for his evenin' walk
Let him go and wait
[Chorus]
Hear the warden sang
Come on somebody
Why don't you run
Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun
Get my lantern
Get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
[Verse 4]
Now Ol' Red got real used to seein'
His lady fried every night
So I kept him away for three or four days
And waited 'til the time got right
Well I made my run with the evenin' sun
And I smiled when I heard they let Red out
'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee
And Ol' Red he was headed south
[Chorus]
Hear the warden sang
Come on somebody
Why don't you run
Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun
Get my lantern
Get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
[Outro]
Now there's red-haired blue ticks all in the South
Love got me in here and love got me out
Hear the warden sang
Come on somebody
Why don't you run
Ol' Red's itchin' to have a little fun
Get my lantern
Get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
[Outro]
Now there's red-haired blue ticks all in the South
Love got me in here and love got me out
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Release Date
1993
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