Tennessee Stud

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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
 
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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