D
Along about eighteen twenty five
  C
I left Tennessee very much alive
      D
And I never would got through the Arkansas mud
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If I hadn''t been a-ridin that Tennessee Stud

I had me some trouble with my sweetheart''s Paw
One o'' her brothers was a bad outlaw
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud
Then I rode away on the Tennessee Stud
    
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The Tennesee Stud was long and mean
    ?F?          C           D
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
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He had the nerve and he had the blood 
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And there never was a horse like The Tennesee Stud

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

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

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Well I got just as lonesome as a man could be
A-dreamin of my girl in Tennessee
The Tennessee Stud''s green eyes turned blue
''Cause he was dreamin bout his sweetheart too

We loped right back across Arkansas
I whooped her brother and I whooped her Paw
When I found that girl with the golden hair
She was a-ridin that Tennessee Mare 
Ad lib Whoa Boy

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Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide
We came to big muddy and then we forded a flood
On the Tennesee Mare and the Tennessee Stud

There''s a prety little girl on the cabin floor
And a little horse colt layin on the floor
I love that girl with the golden hair
And the Tennesee stud loves the Tennessee Mare

Ad lib They''re good horses

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