Tennessee Stud chords by Eddy Arnold

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

V#1

G

Along about eighteen twenty five
 F
I left Tennessee very much alive
   G
And I never would got through the Arkansas mud
                D7    G
If I hadn't been a-riding that Tennessee stud

V#2

I had me some trouble with my sweetheart's Paw
  F
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
    G
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud
            D7    G
Then I rode away on the Tennessee stud

Chorus:
            F    G
The Tennessee Stud was long and mean
  C            A7    D7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
G          F     G
He had the nerve and he had the blood
                   D7    G
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud

V#3

We drifted on down into no man's land
  F
And crossed that river called the Rio Grande
 G
I raced my hoss with a Spaniard's foal
               D7     G
Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold

V#4

Me and the gambler we couldn't agree
  F
We got in a fight over Tennessee
  G
We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
           D7    G
And I got away on the Tennessee stud

V#5

Well I got just as lonesome as a man could be
 F
A-dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
  G
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
                D7     G
Cause he was dreaming bout his sweetheart too

V#6

We loped right back across Arkansas
 F
I whooped her brother and I whooped her Paw
   G
When I found that girl with the golden hair
           D7    G
She was a-riding that Tennessee mare

Repeat Chorus:

V#7

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
  F
We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide
  G
We came to big muddy and then we forded a flood
               D7    G
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee stud

V#8

There's a pretty little girl on the cabin floor
   F
And a little horse colt laying on the floor
 G
I love that girl with the golden hair
                 D7    G
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare

Repeat Chorus and end:


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