Chords for "Tennessee Stud" played by Doc Watson and Jack Lawrence

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[Am] _ [D] _ Long about 1825, [C] left Tennessee very much alive.
_ _ [D] Never would have gone through the Arkansas mud if I hadn't been [Am] writing on the [D] Tennessee stud.
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I had some trouble with my sweetheart's palm, [C] one of her brothers was a bad outlaw.
_ _ [D] Sent her a letter by my uncle's foot, then I wrote away on the Tennessee stud.
[Am] _ [D] _ The Tennessee [Em] stud was [D] long and [G] lean, the color of the [Gm] sun in his [G] eyes were green.
[Em] _ [D] He [Bm] had the [C] nerve and he [D] had the blood, and he never went off with the Tennessee stud. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Am] _ [D] _ One day I was riding through a beautiful [C] land when I ran smack into an Indian man.
_ [D] They jumped their nangs with a whoop and a yell and away we [Am] went like a [D] fan out of well.
I circled their camp for retirement to [C] show them what a Tennessee horse can do. _
[D] The red skin boys, they couldn't get my blood cause I was a-riding on [Am] the Tennessee [D] stud.
[Am] Come on [D] boy.
The Tennessee [C] stud was [D] long and [Gm] lean, the color of the sun in his [A] eyes were green.
_ [D] He [C] had the nerve and he [D] had the blood, and he never went off with the Tennessee stud. _
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So we drifted on down into no man's land, [C] went across that river called the Rio Grande.
_ [D] I raced my horse with a Spaniard's fold and I got me a [Am] skin full of [D] silver and gold.
_ _ Me and the gambler we couldn't agree, [C] got in a fight over Tennessee. _
[D] We jerked our guns and he fell with a-and I got away on the Tennessee stud.
[Am] Come [D] on boy.
The Tennessee stud [C] was [D] long and [G] lean, the color of the sun [Gm] in his [A] eyes were green.
_ _ [D] He had [C] the nerve and [Dm] he had the blood, and [G] he never went off with the Tennessee stud. _
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God, just as wholesome as a man [B] can be, [C] dreaming of a gal in Tennessee. _
_ [D] The Tennessee stud's green eyes turned blue cause he was a-dreaming of a sweetheart too.
[A] He's a big fella.
[D] _ So we looked right back across Arkansas.
[C] I beat up her brother and then I had to slap her paw. _
When [D] I found that gal with the golden hair, she was a [A]-ridin' on [D] the Tennessee mare.
[Am] _ [D] _ The Tennessee [C] stud was [G] long and lean, the color of the [Bb] sun in his [A] eyes were green.
_ [Bm] He had the nerve [C] and he [D] had the blood, and he never went off with the Tennessee stud. _
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Stare up, stare up and side by side [C] we crossed the mountains and the valleys wide.
_ [D] Came to pick money then we forded the flood on the Tennessee mare [Am] and the Tennessee [D] stud.
_ _ We're a little baby on the cabin [C] floor, a little horse coat playin' round the door.
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[C] _ [D] I love that gal with the golden hair, the Tennessee stud, [Am] love the [D] Tennessee mare.
Man, they [Am] was good horse.
[D] _ The Tennessee [B] stud [C] was [D] long and [G] lean, the color of the sun [Bb] in his [A] eyes were green. _
[D] He [Bm] had the nerve [D] and he had the blood, and he never went off with the Tennessee stud.
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