Tennessee Stud

Eddy Arnold

Written by Jimmie Driftwood

Key of G · Chords: I II IV V VII

Verse 1

G
Along about eighteen twenty five
                      F
I left Tennessee very much alive
                                           G
And I never would got through the Arkansas mud
                               D7        G
If I hadn't been a-riding that Tennessee stud

Verse 2

I had me some trouble with my sweetheart's Paw
                        F
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
             G
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud
                        D7        G
Then I rode away on the Tennessee stud

Verse 3

                       F        G
The Tennessee Stud was long and mean
    C                        A7        D7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
G                       F       G
He had the nerve and he had the blood
                                     D7        G
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud

Verse 4

We drifted on down into no man's land
                                  F
And crossed that river called the Rio Grande
                       G
I raced my hoss with a Spaniard's foal
                             D7         G
Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold

Verse 5

Me and the gambler we couldn't agree
                       F
We got in a fight over Tennessee
                               G
We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
                      D7        G
And I got away on the Tennessee stud

Verse 6

Well I got just as lonesome as a man could be
                      F
A-dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
                                G
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
                               D7         G
Cause he was dreaming bout his sweetheart too

Verse 7

We loped right back across Arkansas
                            F
I whooped her brother and I whooped her Paw
                                       G
When I found that girl with the golden hair
                      D7        G
She was a-riding that Tennessee mare

Verse 3

                       F        G
The Tennessee Stud was long and mean
    C                        A7        D7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
G                       F       G
He had the nerve and he had the blood
                                     D7        G
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud

Verse 8

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
                          F
We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide
                                 G
We came to big muddy and then we forded a flood
                              D7        G
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee stud

Verse 9

There's a pretty little girl on the cabin floor
                               F
And a little horse colt laying on the floor
                          G
I love that girl with the golden hair
                                 D7        G
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare

Verse 3

                       F        G
The Tennessee Stud was long and mean
    C                        A7        D7
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
G                       F       G
He had the nerve and he had the blood
                                     D7        G
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud