In eighteen hundred and twenty-five I left Tennessee very much alive I never would have made it through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been ridin on the Tennessee stud I had a little trouble with my sweetheart's pa One of her brothers was a bad outlaw I wrote a letter to my Uncle Fud And I rode away on the Tennessee stud And the Tennessee stud was long and lean The color of the sun and his eyes green He had the nerve and he had the blood Never was a horse like the Tennessee stud Drifted down into no man's land Across the river called the Rio Grande I raced my horse with the Spaniard's fold And I won me a bag full of silver and gold Me and the Spainiard, we couldn't agree We got in a fight over Tennessee Pulled our pistols and he fell with a thud And I rode away on my Tennessee stud The Tennessee stud was long and lean The color of the sun and his eyes are green He had the nerve and he had the blood Never was a horse like the Tennessee stud I went back to Arkansas Whipped her brother and I whipped her pa Found me the girl with the golden hair And she was a-ridin' on the Tenessee mare Our little baby crawlin' on the cabin floor Little full colt playin' 'round the door I love the girl with golden hair And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare The Tennessee stud was long and lean The color of the sun and his eyes are green He had the nerve and he had the blood Never was a horse like the Tennessee stud The Tennessee stud was long and lean The color of the sun and his eyes are green He had the nerve and he had the blood Never was a horse like the Tennessee stud Well, he had the nerve and he had the blood Never was a horse like the Tennessee stud Yeah, he had the nerve and he had the blood Never was a horse like the Tennessee stud