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song lyrics Ol Red lyrics Well I caught my wife with another man And it cost me ninety nine On a prison farm in Georgia Close to the Florida line Well I d been here for two long years I finally made the warden my friend And so 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 Got a nose that can smell a two day trail He s a four legged tracking machine You can consider yourself mighty lucky To get past the gators and the quicksand beds But all these years that I ve been here Ain t nobody got past Red [chorus] And 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 before the mornin comes Well I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter To my cousin up in Tennessee Oh and he brought down a blue tick hound She was pretty as she could be Well they penned her up in the swampland Bout a mile just south of the gate And I d take Ol Red for his evening run I d just drop him off and wait [Repeat chorus] Now Ol Red got real used to seeing His lady every night And so I kept him away for three or four days And waited till the time got right Well I made my run with the evenin sun And I smiled when I heard em let Red out Cause I was headed north to Tennessee And Ol Red was headed south [Repeat chorus] Now there s red haired blue ticks all in the South Love got me in here and love got me out song lyrics