Johnny Cash Tennesee Stud Lyrics

Tennesee Stud Lyrics

Back about eighteen and twenty-five

I left Tennessee very much alive

I never would have made it through the Arkansas mud

If I hadn't been ridin on the Tennessee stud



I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa

One of her brothers was a bad outlaw

I wrote a letter to my Uncle Fud

And I rode away on the Tennessee stud



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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



Drifted on down into no man's land

Across the river called the Rio Grande

I raced my horse with the Spaniards fold

Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold



Me and the gambler we couldn't agree

We got in a fight over Tennessee

We pulled our guns, an' he fell with a thud

And I rode away on the Tennessee stud



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I rode right back across Arkansas

I whipped her brother and I whipped her pa

I found that girl with the golden hair

And she was ridin' on a Tennessee mare



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Pretty little baby on the cabin floor

Little horse colt playin' 'round the door

I love the girl with golden hair

And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare



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