Chords
[Intro]
E5 D5/A
[Verse 1]
E5 D5/A A Well, I E5caught my wife with another man
And it D5/Acost me AninetyniE5ne
On a prison farm in Georgia
Close to the Florida liBne
Well, I'dE5 been here for two long years
I D5/Afinally made the Awarden my friend E5
And so he sentenced me to a life of eaBse
Takin' care of Ol' RE5ed
Now, Ol' Red, he's the damnedest dD5/Aog
That I've Aever seE5en
Got a nose that can smell a twoday trail
He's a four legged tracking' machiBne
You can conE5sider yourself mighty lucky
To get past the D5/Agators and the Aquicksand E5beds
But all these years that I've been here
Ain't Bnobody got past RE5ed
And the warden sang
[Chorus]
ECome on somebody, why don't you run?
Ol' Red's itchin' to D5/Ahave a little Efun
Get my lantern, get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the D5/Amornin' E5comes
[Verse 2]
D5/A A Well, I Epaid off the guard and I slipped out a letter
To my D5/Acousin up in ATennesseEe
Oh and he brought down a blue tick hound
She was pretty as she could bBe
Well they Epenned her up in the swampland
'Bout a mD5/Aile just south Aof the gate
E And I'd take Ol' Red for his evening run
I'd juBst drop him oEff and wait
And the warden sang
[Chorus]
ECome on somebody, why don't you run?
Ol' Red's itchin' to D5/Ahave a little Efun
Get my lantern, get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the D5/Amornin' E5comes
[Bridge]
D5/A A E D5/A A Now Ol' ERed got real used to seein'
[Verse 3]
His laD5/Ady eveAry niEght
And so I kept him away for three or four days
And waited 'til the time got riBght
Well, I Emade my run with the evening sun
And I smiD5/Aled when I heard A'em turn REed out
'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee
And OBl' Red was headed sEouth
And the warden sang
[Chorus]
ECome on somebody, why don't you run?
Ol' Red's itchin' to D5/Ahave a little Efun
Get my lantern, get my gun
Red'll have you treed 'fore the D5/Amornin' Ecomes
[Outro]
Now there's redhaired blue ticks all in the South
Love got me in here and D5/Alove got me oEut