Chords with lyrics
Tennessee Stud
Recorded by Eddy Arnold
Written by Jimmie Driftwood
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(Speak this intro gradually going into singing on ...the Tennessee stud part)
Well there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud
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Along about eighteen twenty five
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I left Tennessee very much alive
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And I never would got through the Arkansas mud
D7D7 G+G
If I hadn't been a-riding that Tennessee stud
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I had me some trouble with my sweetheart's Paw
FF
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
G+G
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud
D7D7 G+G
Then I rode away on the Tennessee stud
Chorus:
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The Tennessee Stud was long and mean
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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
D7D7 G+G
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud
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We drifted on down into no man's land
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And crossed that river called the Rio Grande
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I raced my hoss with a Spaniard's foal
D7D7 G+G
Till 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
G+G
We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
D7D7 G+G
And I got away on the Tennessee stud
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Well I got just as lonesome as a man could be
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A-dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
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The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
D7D7 G+G
Cause he was dreaming bout his sweetheart too
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We loped right back across Arkansas
FF
I whooped her brother and I whooped her Paw
G+G
When I found that girl with the golden hair
D7D7 G+G
She was a-riding that Tennessee mare
Repeat Chorus:
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Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
FF
We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide
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We came to big muddy and then we forded a flood
D7D7 G+G
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee stud
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There's a pretty little girl on the cabin floor
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And a little horse colt laying on the floor
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I love that girl with the golden hair
D7D7 G+G
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare
Repeat Chorus and end:
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