Tennessee Stud chords by
Bill Monroe
Doc Watson

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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.
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Sprung a wire that time, I'm have fix that. Good,
okay.
Along about 1825,
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I left Tennessee very much alive
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I never would have gone through
the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a -ridin'
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on the Tennessee stud
I had some trouble with
my sweetheart's call
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One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
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I sent her a letter by my uncle's foot
And I rode away on the Tennessee stud
The Tennessee stud looked
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long and  mean
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the color of the sun and his eyes so green
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he had the nerve and he had the blood
and the devil was a hoss like the tennessee
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So we drifted on down in
the no -man's land
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Across that river called the Rio Grande
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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
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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
And I got away on the Tennessee stud
The Tennessee studs were
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long and lean,
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The color of the sun in his eyes was green.
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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,
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Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee.
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The Ten nessee studs' green
eyes turned blue,
cause he was a dreamin' of
a sweetheart too.
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You did it, fella.
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So we looked right back across Arkansas.
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I beat up her brother
and I had to slap her paw.
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And when I found that gal with
the golden hair,
she was a ridin' on
the Tennessee mare.
Whoa, boy.
The Tennessee studs were
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long and  lean,
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the color of the sun in his eyes was green.
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We had the nerve
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and the hee and the what
And the devil wore the horse
like the Tennessee stud
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 thwarted a flood
On the Tennessee mare and
the Tennessee stud
A little baby on the cabin floor,
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a little horsepoke playing around the door.
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I loved that gal with the golden hair,
and the Tennessee stud
loved the Tennessee man.
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The Tennessee stud was long and lean,
the color of the sun
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and his eyes were green.
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He had the nerve and he had the blood,
and there never was a horse
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like the Tennessee Please die.

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