Tennessee Stud

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Back about eighteen and twenty-five

I left Tennessee very much alive

I never would've made it through the Arkansas mud

If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud

Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa

One of her brothers was a bad outlaw

I wrote a letter to my Uncle Fudd

And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

|The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

|The color of the sun and his eyes were green

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|He had the nerve and he had the blood

|There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

Drifted on down into no man's land

Across the river called the Rio Grande

Raced my horse with the Spaniard's foe

Til 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

Pulled our guns and he fell with a thud

And I rode away on a Tennessee Stud

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I rode right back across Arkansas

I whupped her brother and I whupped her Pa

I found that girl with the golden hair

She was riding on a Tennessee Mare

Pretty little baby on the cabin floor

Little horse colt playing round the door

I loved the girl with the golden hair

And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

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