well i caught my wife with another man and it cost me 99 on a prison farm in georgia close to the florida line well I've been here for 2 long years and i finally made the warden my friend so he sentenced me to a life of ease takin care of ol red 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 yourslef mighty lucky to get past the gators in the quicksand fence but all these years that I've been here ain't nobody got past red

chorus: and the warden sang come one somebody why don't you run ol reds itchin to have a little fun get my lantern and get my gun red'll have you treed 'for the mornin comes

well i payed off the guard and i sent out a letter to my cousin up in tennessee and he brought down a blue tick hound she was purty as she could be well he pinned her up in the swamplands bought a mile just south of the gate well id take ol red for 'is evenin runs id just drop him off and wait

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now ol red got real used to seein his lady every night so i kept him away for three or four days and waited til the time got right well i made my run in the evenin sun and i smiled when i heard let red out couse i was headed north to tenneesee and ol red was headed south

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now there's red haired blue ticks all in the south love got me in here and love got me out

Writer : J. BOHON, D. GOODMAN, M. SHERRILL
Copyright : Lyrics © ZELLS MUSIC COMPANY