Tennessee Stud

Back about 1825 I left Tennessee very much alive

I never would've got through the Arkansas mud

If I hadn't been a ridin' on the Tennessee Stud

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa

One of his brothers was a bad outlaw

I send her a letter by my Uncle Fudd

And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

The Tennesee Stud was long and lean

The color of the sun and his eyes were green

He had the nerve and he had the blood

And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

We drifted on down onto no man's land

We crossed the river called the Rio Grande

I raced my horse with a Spaiard foal

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

Me and a gambler we couldn't agree

We got in a fight over Tennessee

We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud

And I got away on the Tennessee Stud

Well I got just as lonesome as a man can be

Dreaming of my girl in Tennessee

The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue

Cause he was dreaming of his sweetheart, too

We loped right back across Arkansas

I whipped her brother and whipped her pa

I found that girl with the golden hair

And she was a riding on the Tennessee Mare

The Tennesee Stud was long and lean

The color of the sun and his eyes were green

He had the nerve and he had the blood

And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side

We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide

We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood

And the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud

A pretty little baby and the cabin floor

A little horse cold playin' round the door

And I love the girl with the golden hair

And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

The Tennesee Stud was long and lean

The color of the sun and his eyes were green

He had the nerve and he had the blood

And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud