TFT: Blake Shelton

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Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world.  For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously fervent rants of rebellion.  Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

Ol’ Red

Blake Shelton

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'd been here for two 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 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 before the mornin' comes

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 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

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

Now there's red haired blue ticks

All in the South

 Love got me in here

And love got me out

God Gave Me You

Blake Shelton

I've been a walkin’ heartache

 I've made a mess of me

 The person that I've been lately

 Ain't who I wanna be

But you stay here right beside me

 And watch as the storm blows through

 And I need you

‘Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs

 God gave me you for the days of doubt

 And for when I think I lost my way

 There are no words here left to say

It's true

 God gave me you

 Gave me you

There's more here than what we're seein’

 A divine conspiracy

 That you, an angel lovely

 Could somehow fall for me

 You'll always be love's great martyr

 And I'll be the flattered fool

 And I need you

 Yeah

God gave me you for the ups and downs

 God gave me you for the days of doubt

 And for when I think I lost my way

 There are no words here left to say

It's true

 God gave me you

On my own I'm only

 Half of what I could be

 I can't do without you

 We are stitched together

 And what love has tethered

 I pray we never undo

‘Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs

 God gave me you for the days of doubt

 God gave me you for the ups and downs

 God gave me you for the days of doubt

 And for when I think I lost my way

 There are no words here left to say

It's true

 God gave me you

Gave me you

 He gave me you

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