Tennessee Stud chords by Bill Monroe, Doc Watson
Verse 1
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Jimmy Driftwood said his grandfather
told him a couple of tales
that he put together and made this song from
about a mighty Tennessee horse
called the Tennessee Stud.
C
D
Sprung a wire that time, I'm have fix that. Good,
okay.
Along about 1825,
C
I left Tennessee very much alive
D
I never would have gone through
the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a -ridin'
A
D
on the Tennessee stud
I had some trouble with
my sweetheart's call
C
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
D
I sent her a letter by my uncle's foot
And I rode away on the Tennessee stud
The Tennessee stud looked
C
D
long and mean
Bb
A
the color of the sun and his eyes so green
D
C
D
he had the nerve and he had the blood
and the devil was a hoss like the tennessee
A
D
star
A
D
C
D
So we drifted on down in
the no -man's land
C
Across that river called the Rio Grande
D
I raced my horse with a Spaniard's foal
Till he got me a skin full of silver and gold
Me and a gambler, couldn't agree
C
We got in a fight over Tennessee
D
We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
And I got away on the Tennessee stud
The Tennessee studs were
C
D
long and lean,
A
The color of the sun in his eyes was green.
D
C
D
He had the nerve and he had the blood,
And he never was a hoss
like the Tennessee stud.
I got just as lonesome
as a man can be,
C
Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee.
D
The Tennessee studs' green
eyes turned blue,
cause he was a dreamin' of
a sweetheart too.
A
You did it, fella.
D
So we looked right back across Arkansas.
C
I beat up her brother
and I had to slap her paw.
D
And when I found that gal with
the golden hair,
she was a ridin' on
the Tennessee mare.
Whoa, boy.
The Tennessee studs were
C
D
long and lean,
A
the color of the sun in his eyes was green.
D
We had the nerve
C
D
and the hee and the what
And the devil wore the horse
like the Tennessee stud
Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
C
We crossed the mountains and
the valleys wide
D
We came to Big Muddy then
we thwarted a flood
On the Tennessee mare and
the Tennessee stud
A little baby on the cabin floor,
C
a little horsepoke playing around the door.
D
I loved that gal with the golden hair,
and the Tennessee stud
loved the Tennessee man.
C
D
The Tennessee stud was long and lean,
the color of the sun
A
and his eyes were green.
D
C
D
He had the nerve and he had the blood,
and there never was a horse
D
like the Tennessee Please die.
Tennessee Stud
Bill Monroe, Doc Watson
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