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Version 1
            [Intro]
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[Verse]
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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
[Chorus]
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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
[Verse]
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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
[Chorus]
    A                  G        A
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
                             E         A
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud
[Verse]
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I rode right back across Arkansas
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I whupped her brother and I whupped 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 loved the girl with the golden hair
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And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare
[Chorus]
    A                  G        A
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
    D                        C         E
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
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He had the nerve and he had the blood
                             E         A
There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud 
        
                