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1. 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
   
   Had some trouble with my sweetheart`s pa
   One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
   I write a letter to my uncle Fudd
   And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

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R: 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
                                E         A
   There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

2. 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

R: The Tennessee Stud was long and lean...

3. 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

R: The Tennessee Stud was long and lean...