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Ol' Red
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George Jones
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Caught my wife with another man
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Now I'm doin' ninety-nine
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At a prison down in Georgia
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Close to the Florida line.
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I've been here for twelve long years
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And I finally made the warder my friend
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So he sentenced me to a life of ease
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Takin' care of ol' Red.
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Now ol' red he's a dangerous dog
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This old boy has ever seen
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He's got a nose that can smell a two day trail
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Lord, he's a four legged tracking machine.
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Just consider yourself mighty lucky
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To get past the gators and the quicksand beds
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But all these years that I've been here
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Ain't nobody got past Red.
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Hear the warder say,
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Come on somebody why don't you run
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Ol' Red's a-itchin' to have a little fun
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Get my latern, get my gun
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Red'll have 'em treed 'fore the mornin' sun.
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I payed off a guard and he slipped out a letter
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To my cousin in Tennessee
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And he brought down me a blue tick hound
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Lord, she was pretty as she could be.
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They penned her up in the swampland
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About a mile just south of the gate
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And when I take ol' Red for his evening run
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And I'd just drop him off and wait.
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Hear the warder say,
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Come on somebody why don't you run
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Ol' Red's a-itchin' to have a little fun
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Get my latern, get my gun
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Red'll have 'em treed 'fore the mornin' sun.
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Now old red got use to seein'
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This little lady.there every night
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So I kept him away for three or fours days
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And waited till the time got right.
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I made my run with the evening sun
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And I smiled when I heard 'em let him out
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'Cause I headed north to Tennessee
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And ol' Red was a-headed south.
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I hear the warder say,
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Come on somebody why don't you run
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Ol' Red's a-itchin' to have a little fun
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Get my latern, get my gun
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Red'll have 'em treed 'fore the mornin' sun.
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Now, there's red hair blue ticks dogs in the south
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Love got me in there and love got me out...
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