Billy Strings – Tennessee Stud (Guitar)

D
Along about eighteen twenty-five

  C
I left Tennessee barely half alive

     D
I never would've got through the Arkansas mud

                               C         D
If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud

D
Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa

C
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw

D
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fudd

                       C         D
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

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The color of the sun and his eyes were green

D                    C          D
He had the nerve and he had the blood

D
We drifted on down into no man's land

   C
We crossed that river called the Rio Grande

D
I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foal

                             C          D
'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold

D
Me and the gambler, we couldn't agree

   C
We got in a fight over Tennessee

   D
We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud

                       C         D
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

    G                        F         A7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green

D                    C          D
He had the nerve and he had the blood

  D
I got just as lonesome as a man can be

C
Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee

    D
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue

                              C          D
'Cause he was a dreamin' of his sweetheart too

D
We loped right back across Arkansas

  C
I whipped her brother and I whipped her Pa

  D
I found that girl with the golden hair

                        C         D
And she was riding on the Tennessee Mare

    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

    G                        F         A7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green

D                    C          D
He had the nerve and he had the blood

D
Stirrup to stirrup and side by side

   C
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide

   D
We came to Big Muddy, then we forded the flood

                              C         D
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud

D
There's a pretty little baby on the cabin floor

C
Little horse colt playing round the door

  D
I loved that girl with the golden hair

                                 C         D
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

    G                        F         A7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green

D                    C          D
He had the nerve and he had the blood