Tennessee Stud

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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 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 Tennessee Stud 
 
 Drifted on down into no man's land 
 Across the river called the Rio Grande 
 Raced my horse with the Spaniard's foe 
 Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold 
 
 Me and the gambler, we couldn't agree 
 We got in a fight over Tennessee 
 Pulled our guns and he fell with a thud 
 And I rode away on a Tennessee Stud 
 
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 I rode right back across Arkansas 
 I whupped her brother and I whupped her Pa 
 I found that girl with the golden hair 
 She was riding on a Tennessee Mare 
 
 Pretty little baby on the cabin floor 
 Little horse colt playing round the door 
 I loved the girl with the golden hair 
 And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare 
 
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Enjoy!