Doc Watson - Tennessee Stud Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Along about eighteen twenty-five
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I left Tennessee very much alive
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I never would have got through the Arkansas mud
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If I hadn't been a-ridin' on the Tennessee Stud
 
[Verse 2]
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I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
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And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw
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I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud          
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And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud 
 
[Chorus]
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The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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The color of the sun, and his eyes were green
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He had the nerve and he had the blood
N.C.
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud
 
[Break]
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[Verse 3]
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We drifted on down into no man's land
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We crossed that river called the Rio Grande
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I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foal
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'Til I got me a skim full of silver and gold
 
[Verse 4]
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Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree
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We got in a fight over Tennessee
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We jerked our guns, and he fell with a thud
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And I got away on the Tennessee Stud
 
[Chorus]
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The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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The color of the sun, and his eyes were green
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He had the nerve and he had the blood
N.C.
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud
 
[Break]
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[Verse 5]
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I got just as lonesome as a man can be
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Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
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The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
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'Cause he was a-dreamin' of a sweetheart, too
 
[Verse 6]
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We loped right back across Arkansas;
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I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa
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I found that girl with the golden hair
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And she was a-riding on the Tennessee Mare
 
[Chorus]
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The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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The color of the sun, and his eyes were green
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He had the nerve and he had the blood
N.C.
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud
 
[Break]
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[Verse 7]
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Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
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We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
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We came to Big Muddy, then we forded the flood
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On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud
 
[Verse 8]
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A pretty little baby on the cabin floor
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A little horse colt playing 'round the door
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I love that girl with the golden hair
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And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare
 
[Chorus]
D                       Cadd9    D
The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
Cadd9                  G                    Fadd9 C G C
The color of the sun, and his eyes were green
D                    Cadd9      D
He had the nerve and he had the blood
N.C.
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud
 
[Outro]
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