Chords for Tennessee Stud - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Santa Cruz 2002

This is one of those tunes I really wish I'd written.
_ It's a really great
_ [B] _
Jimmy Driftwood tune. _ _ _
[F#] We used to always drive by Jimmy Driftwood's
cabin [C#] _ on our way to
gigs in [B] Fayetteville, Arkansas and
_ _ _ [A]
he had like a big sign out [A#] front that said like Jimmy [G] Driftwood's house [F#] and
_ _ _ somehow we [G] knew through the grapevine that he loved [A#m] for strangers to just drop [F] in and say [B] hi and
and we'd always be driving to the gig and we'd be late and
_ we'd [F#] say
Next [A#] time we are definitely [C#] stopping at Jimmy's [B] house
_ And then Jimmy passed away _ _
_ [A] so
_ [B] There you go.
Anybody you've been meaning to go see go see him _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ long about _ _ _
[F#] _ _ 1825 [A] I've lived in [E] the sea [A] very much in life
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
Never would have made it through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been _ [E] right in the Tennessee stud
[F#] _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ Well, the Tennessee stud was a long
lean
_ color [E] of the [A] Sun [E] and his eyes
[F#] green _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] He had the nerve he had the blood
_ Man was a [F#] host like [E] a Tennessee [B] stud
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[B] Well, [Bm] I [B] had a little trouble with my sweetheart's pa
[F#] And [A] one of the brothers was a bad _ [E] outlaw.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _
I
said no by my
Uncle _ Ferb and I rode _ away [A] on Tennessee _ stud _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then I drifted down into no man's land
[F#m] And [A] across the river called the Rio Grande
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] Now raised the horse with a Spanish foal till I got me a purse
_ [G] silver [B] and gold _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, the Tennessee stud was a long
_ [F#] lean
color of the Sun [D] and his eyes
_ [F#] green
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ He had the nerve he had the [F#m] blood
_ [B] Never was a [F#] host like [E] a Tennessee [B] stud
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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[E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
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[F#] Now [B] me and the gambler couldn't agree
_ [F#] And [A] we got in a fight over _ _ _
Tennessee _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] Not jack good
_ [F#] _ [B] Fair with the third now, no
[F#m] No, he [E] on the Tennessee [B] stud _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
Then a _ drifted back across
_ _ Arkansas
[A] And I would your brother
And I would rip off
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _
my fan
_ [F#] girl with the
[F#] Golden _ [B] hair she was right
[A] _ _ [B] Tennessee _ man
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _
[F#m] Now there's [B] a little baby playing on the cabin floor
_ [A] And a little horse complain
_ _ No, _ _ I _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ love
Good with the golden
_ _ _ _ Tennessee _ stud was a Tennessee _
man _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now the Tennessee stud was a long
_ lean
[E] _
color of the Sun and [G] his eyes _
[F#] green _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ He had the nerve [B] he had the [F#] blood _
[B] Never was [F#] a horse like [E] a Tennessee [B] stud _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well, he had the nerve
He had the blood
Never was a horse like the Tennessee _ [B] stud _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Man, I wish I had a horse [E] like the Tennessee _
[B] stud _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ My Jimmy Griffin _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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