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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.
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Had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa,
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one of her brothers was a bad outlaw.
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I wrote a letter to my Uncle Spud,
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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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I rode right back across Arkansas,
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I whipped her brother and I whipped 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,
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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.
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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.
