Tennessee Stud

[Intro]
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[Interlude]
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[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 1]
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 Well, along about eighteen twenty five
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I left Tennessee barely half alive
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And I never wouldn't got through the Arkansas mud
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If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud
I had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa
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One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
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I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fudd
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And then I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

[Chorus]
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Oh, the Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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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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There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 2]
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 Well,
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we drifted on down into no man's land
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We crossed that river called the Rio Grande
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I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foal
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'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold
Me and the gambler, we couldn't agree
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We got in a fight over Tennessee
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We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
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And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud 

[Chorus]
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Oh, the Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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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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There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 3]
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I got just as lonesome as a man can be
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Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
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And the Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
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'Cause he was a dreamin' of his sweetheart too
We loped right back across Arkansas
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I whupped her brother and I whupped her Pa
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I found that girl with the golden hair
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She was a riding on the Tennessee Mare 

[Chorus]
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Oh, the Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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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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There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

[Interlude]
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[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 4]
Well,
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stirrup to stirrup and side by side
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We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
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We came to Big Muddy,
then we forded the flood
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On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud
There's a pretty little baby on the cabin floor
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Little horse colt playing round the door
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I loved that girl with the golden hair
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And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

[Chorus]
        D                  Fmaj7    D
Oh, the Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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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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There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud