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 2 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

• 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%2