Intro: E5 E5 E5 Repeat 3 times E5 Well I caught my wife with another man D5 A5 E5 And it cost me ninety-nine E5 On a prison farm in Georgia B5 Close to the Florida line E5 Well I?ve been here for two long years D5 A5 E5 I finally made the warden my friend E5 And so he sentenced me to a life of ease B5 E5 Taking care of Ol? Red E5 Now Ol? Red he?s the damndest dog D5 A5 E5 That I?ve ever seen E5 Got a nose that can smell a two day trail B5 He?s a four legged tracking machine E5 You can consider yourself mighty lucky to get past D5 A5 E5 The gators and the quicksand beds B5 E5 But all these years that I been here E5 Ain?t nobody got past Red Chorus: E5 And the warden sang, E5 E5 E5 E5 Come on somebody why don?t you run E5 E5 B5 E5 Ol? Red?s itchin to have a little fun E5 E5 E5 E5 Get my lantern, get my gun E5 E5 B5 E5 Red?ll have you treed ?fore the morning comes E5 D5 A5 E5 Well I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter D5 A5 E5 To my cousin up in Tennessee E5 Oh and he brought down a blue tick hound B5 She was pretty as she could be E5 Well the penned her up in the swampland D5 A5 E5 About a mile just south of the gate E5 And I?d take Ol? Red for his evening run B5 E5 I?d just drop him off and wait E5 And the warden sang, E5 E5 E5 E5 Come on somebody why don?t you run E5 E5 B5 E5 Ol? Red?s itchin to have a little fun E5 E5 E5 E5 Get my lantern, get my gun E5 E5 B5 E5 Red?ll have you treed ?fore the morning comes E5 D5 A5 E5 Now Ol? Red got real used to seeing D5 A5 E5 His lady every night E5 E5 And so I kept him away for three or four days E5 E5 B5 And waited til the time got right E5 Well I made my run with the evening sun D5 A5 E5 And I smiled when I heard ?em turn Red out E5 Cause I was headed north to Tennessee And Ol? Red was headed south E5 And the warden sang, E5 E5 E5 E5 Come on somebody why don?t you run E5 E5 B5 E5 Ol? Red?s itchin to have a little fun E5 E5 E5 E5 Get my lantern, get my gun E5 E5 B5 E5 Red?ll have you treed ?fore the morning comes E5 D5 A5 E5 Now there?s red hair blue ticks all in the south E5 B5 E5 Love got me in here and love got me out
