Tennessee Stud Lyrics

Tennessee Stud lyrics

Along 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 a-riding
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


I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
One of her
brothers was a bad outlaw
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Thud
And I rode
away on the Tennessee Stud

One day I was riding in a beautiful land
I
run smack into an Indian band
They jumped their nags with a whoop and a
yell
And away we rode like a bat out of Hell

I circled their camp for
a time or two
Just to show what a Tennessee horse can do
The redskin boys
couldn't get my blood
'Cause I was a-riding on the Tennessee Stud

I
drifted on down into no man's land
I crossed the river called the Rio
Grande
I raced my horse with the Spaniards bold
'Til I got me a skinful
of silver and gold

Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree
We got in a
fight over Tennessee
We jerked our guns, he fell with a thud
And I got
away on the Tennessee Stud

Well I got as lonesome as a man can
be
A-dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
And the Tennessee Stud's green eyes
turned blue
'Cause he was a-dreaming of a sweetheart too

I loped on
back across Arkansas
And I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa
I
found that girl with the golden hair
And she was a-riding on a Tennessee
Mare

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
We crossed the mountains and
the valleys wide
We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood
On the
Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud

Pretty little baby on the cabin
floor
And a little horse colt playing 'round the door
I love the girl
with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare.