Tennnessee
Stud
In eighteen hundred and
twenty
five
I left Tennessee very
much
alive
But I never would've got
to the
the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a-ridin'
on a Tennessee stud
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I had me some trouble
with
my sweetheart's pa
One of her brothers was
a bad outlaw
Well I sent me a letter
to my
Uncle Judd
I rode away on the
Tennessee
stud
REFRAIN
The Tennessee stud was
long
and lean
And the color of the sun
and
his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he
had
the blood
And there never was a
horse
like a Tennessee stud
Well I loped on down into
no
man's land
And I crossed the river
called
the Rio Grande
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
So we got in a fight, it
was one, two, three
We jerked our guns and he
fell with a thud
And I rode way on a
Tennessee
stud
Well I was as lonesome as
a man could be
Thinking of my girl back
in Tennessee
The Tennessee stud's
green
eyes turned blue
Cause he was a-thinking
of
his sweetheart too
I loped on back into
Arkansas
And I rode all night til
my back was raw
I found me the girl with
the
golden hair
And she was a-riding on
the
Tennessee mare
Well stirrup by stirrup
and side
by side
Well we crossed the
mountains
and the valleys wide
We come to Big Muddy and
we forded the flood
On the Tennessee Mare and
the Tennessee stud
There's a pretty little
baby on the
cabin floor
And a little horse colt
hanging
'round the door
I love the girl with the
golden hair
And the Tennessee stud
loves
the Tennessee mare
