Tennessee Stud Chords

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Tennessee Stud by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, G, E, D and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			 A 
  
 A                                   
 Back about eighteen and twenty-five 
   G                              
 I left Tennessee very much alive 
      A                                            
 I never would've made it through the Arkansas mud 
                                E         A    
 If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud 
 
 A                                        
 Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa 
 G                                    
 One of her brothers was a bad outlaw 
 A                                 
 I wrote a letter to my Uncle Fudd 
                        E         A    
 And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud 
 
|    A                  G        A    
|The Tennessee Stud was long and lean 
|    D                        C         E     
|The color of the sun and his eyes were green 
|A                                     
|He had the nerve and he had the blood 
|                             E         A    
|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 
 
 {chorus} 
 
 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 
 
 {chorus} 
 
Enjoy! 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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