Tennessee Stud chords by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Verse 1
D
Jimmy Driftwood wrote this thing.
Hello there. One, two, three.
Do we want to try a break?
Now,
now your fiddle break comes right after
I get back and whoop her
brother and her paw and sing a chorus.
Now that is about as pretty a bass
line
as I've heard played
in something in a long time.
I have to compliment that
boy back there.
That's a horse's foot in the gravel,
man.
G
D
That ain't trained.
Running through a ford in the creek.
Let's see if we can put
down a take.
A
D
Where's the harmony at, right here?
Along about 1825
C
I left Tennessee very much alive
D
And I never would have got
through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a -ruddin'
that Tennessee stud
I had some trouble with
my sweetheart's pa
C
And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw
D
I sent her a letter by my uncle's foot
Then I rode away on
A
the Tennessee stud
D
The Tennessee stud was
C
D
long and lean
G
The color of the sun and
Bb
A
his eyes were green
D
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse
like the Tennessee stud
We drifted on down into no man's land
C
We crossed that river called Rio Grande
D
I raced my horse with a Spaniard's foal
A
D
Till he got me a skin full of silver and gold
Me and a gambler, we 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
C
D
The Tennessee stud was long and lean
G
The color of the sun and
Bb
A
his eyes were green
D
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
C
A -dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
D
The Tennessee stud's green
eyes turned blue
Cause he was a -dreamin' of
a sweetheart too
We loped right back across Arkansas
C
I whooped her brother and
I whooped her paw
D
But when I found that
girl with the golden hair
A
She was a -ridin' that Tennessee mare
D
C
D
The Tennessee stud was long and lean
G
Bb
A
The color of the sun in his eyes was green
D
C
D
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse
G
like the Tennessee stud
Bb
A
D
C
D
C
We crossed them mountains
and the valleys wide
D
We came to Big Muddy,
then we forded a flood
On the Tunisie mare
and the Tunisie stud
There's a pretty little baby
on the cabin floor
C
A little horse coat
playin' round in the dome
D
I love that girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee stud
loves the Tennessee mare
Says good horses
C
D
The Tennessee stud was long and lean
G
The color of the sun
Bb
A
and his eyes were green
D
He had the nerve and
C
D
he had the blood
And there never was a horse
D
like the Tennessee stud
You
Tennessee Stud
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