Ole Red chords by Oliver Anthony Music

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: A

Intro:

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Verse 1:
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Caught my wife with another man
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And he caused me ninety-nine
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On a prison farm in Georgia
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Close to the Florida line
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I've been here for two long years
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And I finally made the warden my friend
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And he sentenced me to a life of ease
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Takin' care of ol' Red


Verse 2:
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Now ol' red he's the dangeroust dog
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I've ever seen
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He's got a nose that can smell a two day trail
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He's a four legged tracking machine
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But you can 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
      E               A
Ain't nobody got past Red


Chorus:
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And the warden 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 lantern, get my gun
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Red'll have 'em treed 'fore the mornin' come


Verse 3:
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So I payed off a guard and he slipped out a letter
      G                  A
To my cousin up in Tennessee
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Oh, he brought down me a blue tick hound
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She was pretty as she could be
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Well, they penned her up in the swampland
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About a mile just south of the gate
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I take ol' Red for his evening run
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I'd just drop him off and wait


Chorus:
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And the warden say
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Come on somebody why don't you run?
                       G             A
Ol' Red's a-itchin' to have a little fun
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Get my latern, get my gun
                                E       A
Red'll have 'em treed 'fore the mornin' come


Verse 3:
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Now old red got use to seein'
            G                   A
This little lady here every night
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And 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 in the evening sun
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And I smiled when I heard 'em let him out
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I was headin' north to Tennessee
        E              A
And ol' Red was headed south


Chorus:
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And the warden say
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Come on somebody why don't you run?
                       G             A
Ol' Red's a-itchin' to have a little fun
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Get my latern, get my gun
                                E       A
Red'll have 'em treed 'fore the mornin' come


Outro:
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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