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Tennessee Stud by Doc Watson - Guitar Chords

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            [Intro]

   D
e|----------------------------|-------------------2---|
B|----------------------------|-------------------3---|
G|-2-0----------------------2-|-2-0---------------2---|
D|-----4-2-0------0---0-2/4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0-0-|
A|-----------2-0----2---------|-----------2-0---------|
E|----------------------------|-----------------------|

   D          Am       D                Am        D          
e|------2-2------0-0----2-2-|------2-2------0-0----2-2--|
B|------3-3------1-1----3-3-|------3-3------1-1----3-3--|
G|----2-2-2----2-2-2----2-2-|----2-2-2----2-2-2----2-2--|
D|-0--0-0-0----2-2-2--0-----|-0--0-0-0----2-2-2--0------|
A|-----------0-0-0-0--------|-----------0-0-0-0---------|
E|--------------------------|---------------------------|


[Introduction]

D  

D  Am  D Am D


[Verse 1] 

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Along about eighteen twenty-five,
   C                  C6   C
I left Tennessee very much alive.
  D
I never would have got through the Arkansas mud
D                                       Am D     Am  D
If I hadn't been a-ridin' on the Tennessee Stud.
D
I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa,
    C                                    C6 C
And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw.
  D
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Bud,
D                            Am  D     Am  D
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud. 

[chorus]
    D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean,
    C                         Bb7        A7     Bb7 A7
The color of the sun, and his eyes were green.
D
He had the nerve and he had the blood,
D                                           Am  D     
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee  Stud.


[Instrumental] 

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D  Am  D Am D


[Verse 2]

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We drifted on down into no man's land,
   C                                      C6  C
We crossed that river called the Rio Grande.
  D
I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foal
D                               Am      D    Am  D
'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold.
D
Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree,
   C                             C6  C
We got in a fight over Tennessee.
   D
We jerked our guns, and he fell with a thud,
D                     Am        D    Am  D
And I got away on the Tennessee Stud.


[Chorus]

    D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean,
    C                         Bb7        A7     Bb7 A7
The color of the sun, and his eyes were green.
D
He had the nerve and he had the blood,
D                                           Am  D     
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee  Stud.


[Instrumental]

D  

D  Am  D Am D


[Verse 3]

D
I got just as lonesome as a man can be,
C                                C6 C
Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee.
    D
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
D                                  Am     D   Am D
'Cause he was a-dreamin' of a sweetheart, too,
D
We loped right back across Arkansas;
  C                         C6          C
I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa.
  D
I found that girl with the golden hair,
D                                 Am  D     Am D
And she was a-riding on the Tennessee Mare.

[chorus]
    D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean,
    C                         Bb7        A7     Bb7 A7
The color of the sun, and his eyes were green.
D
He had the nerve and he had the blood,
D                                           Am  D     
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee  Stud.


[Instrumental] 

D  

D  Am  D Am D

[Verse 4]

D
Stirrup to stirrup and side by side,
   C                              C6     C
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide.
   D
We came to Big Muddy, then we forded the flood
D                                    Am D     Am D
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud.
D
A pretty little baby on the cabin floor,
  C                          C6         C
A little horse colt playing 'round the door,
  D
I love that girl with the golden hair,
D                                       Am D     Am D
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare.


[Chorus]
    D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean,
    C                         Bb7       A7     Bb7 A7
The color of the sun, and his eyes were green.
D
He had the nerve and he had the blood,
D                                           Am  D     
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee  Stud.


[Outro instrumental]

  D
e|----------------------------|-----------------------|
B|----------------------------|-----------------------|
G|-2-0----------------------2-|-2-0-------------------|
D|-----4-2-0------0---0-2/4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0-0-|
A|-----------2-0----2---------|-----------2-0---------|
E|----------------------------|-----------------------|

  D
e|----------------------------|-------------------2-2-|
B|----------------------------|-------------------3-3-|
G|-2-0----------------------2-|-2-0---------------2-2-|
D|-----4-2-0------0---0-2/4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0-0-|
A|-----------2-0----2---------|-----------2-0---------|
E|----------------------------|-----------------------|



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