Blake Shelton – Ol Red chords

Intro: E   E7 E Repeat 3 times

EWell I caught my wife with another man
       D      A      EAnd it cost me ninety-nine
EOn a prison farm in Georgia
                     BClose to the Florida line
EWell I’ve been here for two long years
D                  A         EI finally made the warden my friend
EAnd so he sentenced me to a life of ease
B                  ETaking care of Ol’ Red

ENow Ol’ Red he’s the damndest dog
    D     A    EThat I’ve ever seen
EGot a nose that can smell a two day trail
                   BHe’s a four legged tracking machine
EYou can consider yourself mighty lucky to get past
D              A             EThe gators and the quicksand beds
B                               EBut all these years that I been here
EAin’t nobody got past Red


Chorus:
EAnd the warden sang,
E7           E   E7             ECome on somebody why don’t you run
E7         E         B             EOl’ Red’s itchin to have a little fun
E7      E        E7     EGet my lantern, get my gun
E7                E              B       ERed’ll have you treed ‘fore the morning comes

E                        D  A
EWell I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter
D      A        ETo my cousin up in Tennessee
EOh and he brought down a blue tick hound
                            BShe was pretty as she could be
EWell the penned her up in the swampland
D                 A            EAbout a mile just south of the gate
EAnd I’d take Ol’ Red for his evening run
B                         EI’d just drop him off and wait




EAnd the warden sang,
E7           E   E7             ECome on somebody why don’t you run
E7         E         B             EOl’ Red’s itchin to have a little fun
E7      E        E7     EGet my lantern, get my gun
E7                E              B       ERed’ll have you treed ‘fore the morning comes

E                        D  A

ENow Ol’ Red got real used to seeing
D        A            EHis lady every night
E                          E7And so I kept him away for three or four days
E
E           BAnd waited til the time got right
EWell I made my run with the evening sun
D            A                            EAnd I smiled when I heard ‘em turn Red out
ECause I was headed north to Tennessee
And Ol’ Red was headed south

EAnd the warden sang,
E7           E   E7             ECome on somebody why don’t you run
E7         E         B             EOl’ Red’s itchin to have a little fun
E7      E        E7     EGet my lantern, get my gun
E7                E              B       ERed’ll have you treed ‘fore the morning comes

E                        D  A


ENow there’s red hair blue ticks all in the south
E                        B           ELove got me in here and love got me out