Johnny Cash – Tennessee Stud (Guitar)

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Back about eighteen and twenty-five

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I left Tennessee very much alive

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I never would've made it through the Arkansas mud

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If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud

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Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa

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One of her brothers was a bad outlaw

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I wrote a letter to 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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There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

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Drifted on down into no man's land

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Across the river called the Rio Grande

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Raced my horse with a Spaniard's foal

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

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Me and the gambler, we couldn't agree

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We got in a fight over Tennessee

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Pulled our guns and he fell with a thud

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And I rode away on a 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 Tennessee Stud

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I rode right back across Arkansas

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I whupped her brother and I whupped her Pa

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I found that girl with the golden hair

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She was riding on a Tennessee Mare

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Pretty little baby on the cabin floor

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Little horse colt playing round the door

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I loved the 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

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There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud