Tanya Tucker - Blood Red And Going Down

Blood Red And Going Down

"Blood Red and Goin' Down" is a song written by Curly Putman, and performed by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. It was released in July 1973 as the second single from Tucker's album What's Your Mama's Name. The single was Tucker's second number one on the country chart and would stay at number one for a single week and spend a total of twelve weeks on the chart.

The song is about an adolescent girl, who accompanies her father to a barroom where her mother and her mother's lover are drinking, and witnesses as her father murders the pair.

Tanya Tucker - Blood Red And Going Down

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

Daddy said, "Now come girl

We're headed down the road to Augusta"

And frankly through his clenched teeth

He called Mama's name and then he cussed her

He said, "Girl, you're young

But some dude has come along and stole your mother"

But you can't steal a willin' mind

'Cause mama's always lookin' for a lover

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

With dusty teardrops on his face

My daddy cried an' big steps he was takin'

Halfway runnin' to keep up

My shorter legs were so tired and shakin'

"Where did I go wrong, girl?

Why would she leave us both this way?"

At times like these, a child of ten

Never knows exactly what to say

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

We searched in every barroom

An' honky-tonk as well

An' finally daddy found them

And Lord, you know, the rest is hard to tell

He sent me out to wait

But scared I looked back through the door

An' daddy left them both

Soakin' up the sawdust on the floor

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down

That Georgia sun was blood red and goin' down