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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
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If I hadn't been a-riding that Tennessee stud
V#2
I had me some trouble with my sweetheart's Paw
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One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
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I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud
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Then I rode away on the Tennessee stud
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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
D7 G
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud
V#3
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
D7 G
Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold
V#4
Me and the gambler we couldn't agree
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We got in a fight over Tennessee
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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
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A-dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
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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
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I whooped her brother and I whooped her Paw
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When I found that girl with the golden hair
D7 G
She was a-riding that Tennessee mare
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