Blake Shelton - Ol Red guitar chord

Ol'Red by Blake Shelton

*CAPO ONE*

*note* a lot of the long stretches of "E" in the verses as well as the

chorus jump back and forth from E to E7, the exact timing doesn't really

matter, just play with it to find what sounds the best.

Intro: E D A

E

Well I caught my wife with another man

D A E

And it cost me ninety-nine

E

On a prison farm in Georgia

B

Close to the Florida line

E

Well I’ve been here for two long years

D A E

I finally made the warden my friend

E

And so he sentenced me to a life of ease

B E

Taking care of Ol’ Red

Now Ol’ Red he’s the damndest 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 been here

Ain’t nobody got past Red

Chorus:

E

And the warden sang,

E7 E E7 E

Come on somebody why don’t you run

E7 E B E

Ol’ Red’s itchin to have a little fun

E7 E E7 E

Get my lantern, get my gun

E7 E B E

Red’ll have you treed ‘fore the morning comes

E D A

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 the penned her up in the swampland

About 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 til the time got right

Well I made my run with the evening sun

And I smiled when I heard ‘em turn Red out

Cause I was headed north to Tennessee

And Ol’ Red was headed south

REPEAT CHORUS

E

Now there’s red hair blue ticks all in the south

E B E

Love got me in here and love got me out