Chords for Doc Watson sings Tennessee Stud (Will The Circle Be Unbroken - 1972)

[D] Jim Adriftwood wrote this thing.
_ _ Hello there.
_ _ _ One, two, three. _
[Ab] One, two, three.
Do we want a [D] try break?
Now, now your fiddle break comes right after I get back and whoop her brother in her paw and sing a chorus.
_ Meanwhile, back at the [A] ranch.
[D] Now, that is [Db] about as pretty a bass line as I've heard played in something [G] in a long time.
_ I've compliments [D] that boy back there.
[Dm] _ _ [Cm] That's a horse's foot [D] in the gravel, man.
That ain't trained.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] Running through a [D] ford in the creek.
_ _ _ _ Want to try one, Doc?
_ Let's see if we can put down a take.
Where's the harmony at?
Right here?
It's talking in the bass line.
Come on. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ _ Along about _ 1825, [C] I left Tennessee very much alive.
_ [D] And I never would have got through the Arkansas mud if I hadn't been a-riding that Tennessee stud.
[Am] _ _ [D] _ I had some trouble with my sweetheart's [C] paws and one of her brothers was a bad-ass law.
_ I [D] sent her a letter by my uncle's foot and I rode away on the Tennessee stud.
[Am] _ [D] _ The Tennessee [C] stud was [D] long [G] and lean, the color of the sun [A] and his eyes were green.
_ [D] He had the nerve and he had the blood and there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud. _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ We drifted on down into no man's [C] land.
We crossed that river called Rio Grande.
_ [D] I raced my horse with a Spaniard's bull till he got me a skin [Am] full of silver [D] and gold.
[Am] _ [D] _ _
Me and the gambler, we couldn't [C] agree.
We got in a fight over Tennessee.
_ _ [D] We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud and I got [Am] away on [D] the Tennessee stud. _ _ _
The Tennessee stud was long and [G] lean, the color of the [Bb] sun and his [A] eyes were green.
_ [D] He had the nerve and he had the blood and there never [Bb] was a horse like the Tennessee [D] stud. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ Well, I got just as lonesome as a man can [C] be, dreaming of my girl in Tennessee. _
_ _ [D] The Tennessee stud's green eyes turned blue cause he was [Am] dreaming of a [D] sweetheart too.
_ _ We looked right back across Arkansas.
[C] I whooped her brother and I whooped her paws.
_ [G] When I [D] found that girl with the golden hair, she was [Am] a riding that [D] Tennessee mare.
[Am] Whoa boy.
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The [G] Tennessee stud was long and lean, the color of the [Gm] sun and his [A] eyes were green.
_ [D] He had the nerve [C] and he [D] had the blood and there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud. _ _ _ _
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[Am] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ Stare up to stare up and side by [C] side, we crossed them mountains and the valleys wide.
_ [D] We came to Big Muddy, then we forded a flood on the Tennessee mare [Am] and the [D] Tennessee stud.
_ [Am] _ [D] _ There's a pretty little baby on the cabin [C] floor, a little horse coat playing round the door.
_ [D] I love that girl with the golden hair and the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare.
Says good horses.
_ The Tennessee [C] stud was [G] long and lean, the color of the sun [Bb] and his [A] eyes were green.
_ [D] He had the nerve and he had the blood and there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud. _ _ _ _ _
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