Tennessee Stud Chords by Doc Watson

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_ _ _ _ of the Tennessee Stud.
Along about 1825
[C] I left Tennessee very much alive
[D] I never would have got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a [Am]-ridin' on the [D] Tennessee Stud
_ _ _ I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
[C] And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw
_ [D] I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fudd
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud _
_ The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun [Bb] in his [A] eyes was 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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_ _ _ _ We drifted on down into no man's land
[C] We crossed that river called the Rio Grande
_ _ [D] I raced my horse with a Spaniard's foal
Till I got me a [Am] skim full of silver and [D] gold
[D] _ _ Me and a gambler we couldn't agree
[C] We got in a fight over Tennessee
_ [D] We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
And I got away [Am] on the [D] Tennessee Stud
_ _ The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
The color of the [Bb] sun in his [A] eyes was green
_ _ [D] He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse [Am] like the Tennessee [D] Stud _
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I got just as lonesome as a man can [C] be
Dreaming of my girl in Tennessee _
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
Cause he was a-dreaming of a sweetheart [D] too
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We loped right back across Arkansas
[C] I whooped her brother and I whooped her pa
_ [D] I found that girl with the golden hair
And she was a-riding on the Tennessee mare
_ _ The Tennessee Stud was long and [G] lean
The color of the sun [Bb] in his [A] eyes was 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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Stare up to stare up and side by side
[C] We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
_ [D] We came to Big Muddy then we forded the flood
On the Tennessee mare [Am] and the Tennessee Stud
_ [D] _ I heard a little baby on the cabin [C] floor
A little horse called playing around the door
[D] I loved that girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loved the Tennessee mare
_ _ The Tennessee [C] Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun in [A] his eyes was 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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