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This week the theme is to find songs about Pets, Names, or Memories suggested by Di of pensitivity101.
For this I couldn’t think of anything right away so I google “songs about pets” and found one of my old time favorite songs!
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’ve been here for two long years
I finally 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’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 ‘fore 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
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
Now, Ol’ Red got real used to seein’
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
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
Now there’s red haired blue ticks all in the South
Love got me in here and love got me out
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Donald Clint Goodman / James E. Bohon / Mark Sherrill
Ol’ Red lyrics © Music Mill Entertainment, Zells Music Company
That’s such a good song! First time I heard it. 🙂
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Years ago, one of my friends shared on Facebook this other Parry Gripp song, probably the most well known one. I loved it so much I started following. https://youtu.be/npjF032TDDQ
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The first song I thought of about a pet was this 😂
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Where did you find that? Hahaha
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Very clever song 😊
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Nice one Christine!
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Funny song Christine, thanks for sharing this.
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Did you know this song? I used to listen to it all the time. I loved the end about how “love had gotten him into it and love had got him out”.
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It was new to me, but I don’t listen to a lot of Country and Western music.
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How about Goodbye, Earl by the Dixie Chics? Check that out. I used to sing it at the Elks club when my dad brought me for Karaoke.
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