Chords for Tex Morton - Old Blue

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_ _ Got a dog off a [Bb] block I was passing [C] through for a retread [F] tire and a beer or two.
His name and breeding and no one knew he was black and tan [C] and so I called [F] him Blue. _
[C] Yeah, name as good as any, [F] just Blue. _ _
_ Well I took him [Bb] home and blasted his hide, [C] he sank his teeth [F] in my backside.
My trousers tore [Bb] like a rotten [F] sack, oh it doesn't pay [C] to turn you back [F] on Blue.
_ [C] No it doesn't pay to turn you [F] back on Blue. _ _ _
_ Well I went out a hunting [Bb] and I took this Blue [C] just to [F] see what he would do.
He rounded [Bb] off an old [F] wild pig mean as [C] Blue and twice as big as [F] Blue.
_ [C] He was mean as Blue and twice as big [F] as Blue. _ _ _
Well he ran that boy down [Bb] a [C] razorback and he bailed him hard [F] on a greasy track.
They flattened the [Bb] fifty yards of [F] scrub and they wouldn't [C] believe me in the [F] pub about Blue.
_ [C] No they wouldn't believe me in the pub [F] about Blue.
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But an old man Rue turned out a snag, [C] he shook Blue out [F] like a sleeping bag.
The Rue put [Bb] on a mighty good [F] show but he couldn't [C] make old Blue let go.
No [F] _ _ _ [C] he couldn't make old Blue let go, [F] not Blue. _ _ _
He shook the [Bb] fleas out of Blue's old hide [C] and dragged him down [F] a shingle slide.
Trampled Blue till his legs were weak and he nearly [C] drowned him in the creek, [F] old Blue.
_ [C] Yeah, tried to drown him in the creek, [F] my Blue. _ _ _
Well the Rue gave [Bb] up in sheer [C] despair and Blue hung on [F] till I got there.
And I killed that Rue with my skinning knife, best [C] dog I've had in all my [F] life, old Blue.
_ Best [C] dog I've had in all my life, [F] that Blue. _ _ _
Then limping [Bb] home along the track we [C] met the [F] local mongrel pack.
They came [Bb] around a stiffard Blue [F] and he took one [C] look and then he [F] flew, old Blue.
_ [C] Yeah, he really showed them who was who, [F] old Blue.
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Well within a week [Bb] I was in the gun [C] for all the [F] damage he had done.
My wife [Bb] left me in [F] despair, she wouldn't [C] stay while Blue was there, [F] not Blue.
_ Said [C] she wouldn't stay if Blue was [F] there, not Blue. _ _ _
_ He tore up [Bb] rabbits by the [C] score and [F] bandicoots and rats galore.
Lefty snakes inside my door while I [C] bore dead and went for more, [F] that Blue.
_ _ [C] Yeah, dropped them there and went for [F] more, old Blue. _ _ _
_ He lost an ear, [Bb] he lost an eye, [C] lost count of the [F] skies on Blue's old hide.
Slipped his collar in my sleep and killed some prides [C] marino sheep, [F] that Blue.
_ _ [C] Yeah, seven prides marinos, [F] awful Blue.
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_ _ No, _ _ Blue didn't die [Bb] of poison [C] baits or rifle [F] shots or bitten mates.
He didn't [Bb] die of wounds or weather. _ _
[C] No, he ate me fowls and died of feathers, [F] old Blue. _
[C] Yeah, died of eating feathers, poor [F] old Blue.
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_ _ _ And if there's a place [Bb] where the good cloves [C] go, I reckon old [F] Blue's been sent below.
And I'd like to [Bb] see the [F] sparks that flew when the devil [C] turned his back on [F] you-know-who. _
When [C] the devil turns his back on the bad [F] old Blue. _ _ _ _ _ _
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