D
Along about eighteen twenty-five
  C
I left Tennessee barely half alive
     D
I never would've got through the Arkansas mud
                               C         D
If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud

[Verse 2]
D
Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa
C
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
D
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fudd
                       C         D
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

[Chorus]
    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    G                        F         A7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
D                    C          D
He had the nerve and he had the blood
STRUM MUTED STRINGS                    D
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

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D   A7   D   A7 D C D C D

[Verse 3]
D
We drifted on down into no man's land
   C
We crossed that river called the Rio Grande
D
I raced my horse with the Spaniard's fole
                            C          D
Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold

[Verse 4]
D
Me and the gambler, we couldn't agree
   C
We got in a fight over Tennessee
   D
We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
                       C         D
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

[Chorus]
    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    G                        F         A7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
D                    C          D
He had the nerve and he had the blood
STRUM MUTED STRINGS                    D
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

[Break]
D   A7   D   A7 D C D C D

[Verse 5]
  D
I got just as lonesome as a man can be
C
Dream’n of my girl in Tennessee
    D
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
                            C          D
Cause he was a dreamin of his sweetheart too

[Verse 6]
D
We loped right back across Arkansas
  C
I whipped her brother and I whipped her Pa
  D
I found that girl with the golden hair
                        C         D
And she was riding on the Tennessee Mare

[Chorus]
    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    G                        F         A7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
D                    C          D
He had the nerve and he had the blood
STRUM MUTED STRINGS                    D
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

[Break]
D   A7   D   A7 D C D C D

[Verse 7]
D
Stirrup to stirrup and side by side,
   C
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide.
   D
We came to Big Muddy, then we forded the flood
                              C         D
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud.

[Verse 8]
D
There's a pretty little baby on the cabin floor
C
Little horse colt playing round the door
  D
I loved that girl with the golden hair
                                 C         D
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

[Chorus]
    D                  C        D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    G                        F         A7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
D                    C          D
He had the nerve and he had the blood
STRUM MUTED STRINGS                    D
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud