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Tennessee Stud

Jimmie Driftwood

© Warden Music, BMI

Along about 18-and-25
I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would've got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a ridin' on the Tennessee Stud

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
One of these brothers was a bad outlaw
I send her a letter by my Uncle Fud
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

We drifted on down into no man's land
We crossed the river called the Rio Grande
I raced my horse with a Spaniards bold
Till 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 he fell with a thud
And I got away on the Tennessee Stud

(The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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 the Tennessee Stud)

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

We loped right on across Arkansas
I whipped her brother and whipped her pa
I found that girl with the golden hair
And she was a ridin' on the Tennessee Mare

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

A pretty little baby and the cabin floor
A little horse colt playin' round the door
I love the girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loved the Tennessee Mare

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean...

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