Tennessee Stud

Johnny Cash

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    Back about eighteen and twenty-five
      G
    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.

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    Had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa,
     G
    one of her brothers was a bad outlaw.
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    I wrote a letter to my Uncle Fudd,
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    and I rode away on the Tennessee Stud.

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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,
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there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud.

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    Drifted on down into no man's land,
         G
    across the river called the Rio Grande.
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    Raced my horse with the Spaniard's foe,
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    til I got me a skin full of silver and gold.

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    Me and the gambler, we couldn't agree,
           G
    we got in a fight over Tennessee.
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    Pulled our guns and he fell with a thud,
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    and I rode away on a 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 the Tennessee Stud.

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    I rode right back across Arkansas,
          G
    I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa.
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    I found that girl with the golden hair,
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    she was riding on a Tennessee Mare.

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    Pretty little baby on the cabin floor,
    G
    little horse colt playing round the door.
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    I love the girl with the golden hair,
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    and the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare.

         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 the Tennessee Stud.