Doc Watson – Tennessee Stud (Guitar)

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Along about eighteen twenty-five

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I left Tennessee very much alive

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I never would've got through the Arkansas mud

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If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud

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I had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa

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One of her brothers was a bad outlaw

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Sent her a letter by my Uncle Fudd

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And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

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The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

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The color of the sun and his eyes were green

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He had the nerve and he had the blood

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And there never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

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So we drifted on down into no man's land

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We crossed that river called the Rio Grande

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I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foal

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

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Me and a 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 rode away on the Tennessee Stud

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The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

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The color of the sun and his eyes were green

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He had the nerve and he had the blood

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There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

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I got just as lonesome as a man can be

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Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee

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The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue

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'cause he was a'dreamin' of a sweetheart too

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So we loped right back across Arkansas

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I beat up her brother and I slapped her Pa

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And when I found that girl with the golden hair

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She was riding on a Tennessee Mare

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The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

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The color of the sun and his eyes were green

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He had the nerve and he had the blood

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There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

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Stirrup to stirrup and side by side

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We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide

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We came to Big Muddy, then we forded the flood

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On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud

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There's a pretty little baby on the cabin floor

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Little horse colt playing 'round the door

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I loved that girl with the golden hair

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And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

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The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

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The color of the sun and his eyes were green

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He had the nerve and he had the blood

                             Am7       D
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud