OL' RED
As recorded by Blake Shelton on "Blake Shelton" (2001)

Well, I caught my wife with another man and it cost me a ninety-nine
On a prison farm in Georgia, close to the Florida line.
Well, I've been here for two long years; I fin'lly made the warden my friend,
And so he sentenced me to a life of ease, takin' 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 trackin' machine.
You can consider yourself mighty lucky to get past the gators and the quicksand beds,
But all these years that I 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 'fore the mornin' comes."

Well, I paid off the guard and I slipped out a letter to my cousin up in Tennessee.
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 o' the gate.
I'd take old Red for his evenin' run; I'd just drop him off an' wait. CHORUS

Now ol' Red got real used to seein' his lady ever' night,
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 turn Red out,
'Cause I was headed north to Tennessee and ol' Red was headed south. CHORUS

Now there's red-haired blue ticks all in the South.
Love got me in here and love got me out.