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Along about eighteen twenty five 
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I left Tennessee very much alive 
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And I never would got through the Arkansas mud 
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If I hadn't been a-ridin that Tennessee Stud 
 
I had me some trouble with my sweetheart's Paw 

One o' her brothers was a bad outlaw 

I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud 

Then I rode away on the Tennessee Stud 
     
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The Tennesee Stud was long and mean 
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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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And there never was a horse like The Tennesee Stud 
 
We drifted on down inta no man's land  
And crossed that river called the Rio Grande 
I raced my hoss with a Spaniard's foal 
'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 
We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud 
And I got away on the Tennessee Stud 
 
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Well I got just as lonesome as a man could be 
A-dreamin of my girl in Tennessee 
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue 
'Cause he was dreamin bout his sweetheart too 
 
We loped right back across Arkansas 
I whooped her brother and I whooped her Paw 
When I found that girl with the golden hair 
She was a-ridin that Tennessee Mare  
Ad lib Whoa Boy 
 
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Stirrup to stirrup and side by side 
We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide 
We came to big muddy and then we forded a flood 
On the Tennesee Mare and the Tennessee Stud 
 
There's a prety little girl on the cabin floor 
And a little horse colt layin on the floor 
I love that girl with the golden hair 
And the Tennesee stud loves the Tennessee Mare 
 
Ad lib They're good horses 
 
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