Well, there never was a horse
Like the Tennessee stud


Along about eighteen and twenty-five
I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would have gotten

Through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been riding on
The Tennessee stud


I had some trouble
With my sweetheart's pa

One of her brothers
Was a bad outlaw


I sent her a letter
By my Uncle Fud
And I rode away on

The Tennessee stud

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The Tennessee 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
Into no man's land
We crossed the river

Called the Rio Grande

I raced my horse

With the Spaniards bold
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
He fell with a thud
And I got away on

The Tennessee stud

Well, I got as lonesome

As a man can be
Dreaming of my girl
In Tennessee


The Tennessee stud's
Green eyes turned blue

Cause he was dneaming
Of a sweetheart too


We loped right on
Across Arkansas
I whipped her brother

And I whipped her pa

I found that girl

With the golden hair
And she was riding
On the Tennessee mare


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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
On the Tennessee mare

And the Tennessee stud

Pretty little baby
On the cabin floor
Little horse colt

Playing round the door

I love the girl
With the golden hair
And the Tennessee stud

Loves the Tennessee mare

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