Tennessee Stud

D
Along about eighteen twenty-five
  C
I left Tennessee very much alive
     D
I never would've made it through the
 Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been riding on the 
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Tennessee Stud

D
Had some trouble with my 
sweetheart's Pa
C
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
D
I wrote her a letter by my Uncle 
Fudd
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And I rode away on the Tennessee 
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Stud


[Chorus]

    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    G                        F    
The color of the sun and his eyes 
     A
were green
D
He had the nerve and he had the 
blood
There never was a horse like 
Am7       D
Tennessee Stud


[Verse]

We drifted on down into no man's 
land
We crossed that river called the Rio
 Grande
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I raced my horse with the Spaniard's
 foal
Til I got me a skin full of silver 
and gold

Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree
We got in a fight over Tennessee
We jerked our guns and he fell with 
a thud
And I rode away on the Tennessee 
Stud


[Chorus]

    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    G                        F    
The color of the sun and his eyes 
     A
were green
D
He had the nerve and he had the 
blood
There never was a horse like 
Am7       D
Tennessee Stud


[Verse]

I got just as lonesome as a man can 
be
Dreamin of my girl in Tennessee
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes 
turned blue
cause he was a dreamin of a 
sweetheart too

I rode right back across Arkansas
I whipped her brother and I whipped 
her Pa
I found that girl with the golden 
hair
And she was riding on a Tennessee 
Mare


[Chorus]

    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    G                        F    
The color of the sun and his eyes 
     A
were green
D
He had the nerve and he had the 
blood
There never was a horse like 
Am7       D
Tennessee Stud


[Verse]

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side,
We crossed the mountains and the 
valleys wide.
We came to Big Muddy, then we forded
 the flood
On the Tennessee Mare and the 
Tennessee Stud.

Pretty little baby on the cabin 
floor
Little horse colt playing round the 
door
I loved that girl with the golden 
hair
And the Tennessee Stud loves the 
Tennessee Mare


[Chorus]

    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    G                        F    
The color of the sun and his eyes 
     A
were green
D
He had the nerve and he had the 
blood
There never was a horse like 
Am7       D
Tennessee Stud