Tennessee Stud

Along about eighteen twenty five I left Tennessee very much alive



I never would have forded the Arkansas mud



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



I had a little trouble with my sweetheart's pa



And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw



I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fudd



Then I rode away on the Tennessee Stud



The Tennessee stud was long and lean mean



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 into no man's land



We crossed the river called the Rio Grande



I raced my horse with a Spaniard's 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 a dreaming of his sweetheart too



We loped right back across Arkansas



I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa



When I found that girl with the golden hair



And she was a riding on the Tennessee Mare



The Tennessee stud was long...



Stirrup to stirrup and side by side



We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide



We came to Big Muddy then forded the flood



On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud



Pretty little baby on the cabin floor



A little horse colt playing round the door



I love that girl with the golden hair



And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare



The Tennessee stud was long...