Ol' Red - Blake Shelton

I caught my wife with another man

It cost me ninety nine

Down in Georgia prison

Close to the Florida line

Well I’d been here for two long years

I finally made the warden my friend

He sentenced me to a life of ease

Taking 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 yourself mighty lucky

To get past the gators and the quicksand beds

'Cause all these years that I’ve been here

Nobody got past Red

Hear the warden sang

Come on somebody

Why don’t you run

Ol' Red’s itchin' to have a little fun

Get my lantern

Get my gun

Red’ll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes

I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter

To my cousin up in Tennessee

Now he brought down a blue tick hound

She was pretty as she could be

So we staked her up in the swampland

About a mile just south of the gate

And I’d take Ol' Red for his evenin' walk

Let him go and wait

Hear the warden sang

Come on somebody

Why don’t you run

Ol' Red’s itchin' to have a little fun

Get my lantern

Get my gun

Red’ll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes

Now Ol' Red got real used to seein'

His lady fried every night

So I kept him away for three or four days

And waited 'til the time got right

Well I made my run with the evenin' sun

And I smiled when I heard they let Red out

'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee

And Ol' Red he was headed south

Hear the warden sang

Come on somebody

Why don’t you run

Ol' Red’s itchin' to have a little fun

Get my lantern

Get my gun

Red’ll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes

Now there’s red-haired blue ticks all in the South

Love got me in here and love got me out