Ol Red Cifras

Capo 1, hammer on 4th and 5th strings while playing the E5, palm mute whole song.
 
* = single strum
 
 
[Intro]
 
| E5      | E5    | E5      | E5  D A
           (3/4)
 
[Verse 1]
 
        E5
Well, I caught my wife with another man
       D       A        E5
And it cost me ninety-nine
     E5
On a prison farm in Georgia
                      B7
Close to the Florida line
      E5
Well, I've been here for two long years
  D                A           E5
I finally made the warden my friend
          E5
And so he sentenced me to a life of ease
B7                  E5
taking care of Ol' Red
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
        E5
Now Ol' Red he's the damnedest dog
D         A      E5
that I've ever seen
      E5
Got a nose that can smell a two day trail
                                B7
He's a four legged tracking machine
           E5
You can consider yourself mighty lucky to get past
    D              A         E5
The gators and the quicksand beds
    E5
But all these years that I've been here
      B7               E5
Ain't nobody got past Red
 
 
[Chorus]
 
And the warden sang
E
come on somebody why don't you run
                     D             E
Ol' Reds itchin' to have a little fun
 
Get my lantern, get my gun
                                D       E
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
        E5
Well, I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter
      D            A      E5
To my cousin up in Tennessee
        E5
Oh, and he brought down a blue tick hound
                             B7
She was pretty as she could be
           E5
Well, they penned her up in the swampland
         D         A            E5
'Bout a mile just south of the gate
        E5
And I'd take Ol' Red for his evening run
        B7           E5
I'd just drop him off and wait
 
 
[Chorus]
 
And the warden sang
E
come on somebody why don't you run
                     D             E
Ol' Reds itchin' to have a little fun
 
Get my lantern, get my gun
                                D       E
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
        E5
Now Ol' Red got real used to seeing
    D    A        E5
His lady every night
         E5
And so I kept him away for three or four days
                              B7
And waited till the time got right
        E5
Well, I made my run with the evenin' sun
       D             A              E5
And I smiled when I heard 'em turn Red out
             E5
'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee
        B7              E5
And Ol' Red was headed south
 
 
[Chorus]
 
And the warden sang
E
come on somebody why don't you run
                     D             E
Ol' Reds itchin' to have a little fun
 
Get my lantern, get my gun
                                D       E
Red'll have you treed 'fore the mornin' comes
 
 
[Ending]
 
            E5*
Now there's red haired blue ticks all in the south
E5*                     D*           E5*
Love got me in here and love got me out
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