Tennessee Stud chords by Johnny Cash, Michael Martin Murphey

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Long about 1825,
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I left Tennessee very much alive
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I never would have made
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it to the Arkansas mud
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If I hadn't been a -ridin'
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on my Tennessee stud
I had some trouble with my sweethearts
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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
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And I rode away on the
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Tennessee Stud
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Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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The color of the sun and his
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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 Stud
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We drifted on down in the
no man's land,
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Across that river called Rio Grande.
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I raced my horse with a Spaniard's foal,
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Till 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 got away on the Ten nessee stud
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The Tennessee stud was long and lean
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The color of the sun
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and his eyes were green
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He had the nerve and
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he had the blood
There never was a horse
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B 
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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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Tennessee stud's green
eyes turned blue
Cause he was a dreamin'
of his sweetheart too
I looked right back across Arkansas
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I walked her brother and I walked her pa
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I found that girl with the golden hair
and she was ridin' on the
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Tennessee mare
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Tennessee stud was long and lean,
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the color of the sun
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C 
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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 stud
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Stirrup to stirrup and side -by -side
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We crossed them mountains
and the valleys wide
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We came to Big Muddy
and we poured a flood
on the Tennessee mare and the
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Tennessee stud.
There's a pretty little baby
on the cabin floor,
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the moss coat went round the door.
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I love that girl with the golden hair,
and the Tennessee stud
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loves the Tennessee mare.
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B 
The Tennessee stud was long and lean,
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the color of the sun and his
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eyes were green.
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A 
B 
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse
like the Tennessee stud
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse
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A 
B 
like the Tennessee stud you