Tom: D
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
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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
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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
