Tennessee Stud Lyrics

(Jimmie Driftwood)

Along about 18-and-25
I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would've got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a ridin' on the Tennessee Stud.

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
One of his brothers was a bad outlaw
I send her a letter by my Uncle Fudd
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud.

We drifted on down onto no man's land
We crossed the river called the Rio Grande
I raced my horse with a Spaiard foal
Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold.

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

(The Tennesee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud.)Porter Wagoner - Tennessee Stud - http://motolyrics.com/porter-wagoner/tennessee-stud-lyrics.html

Well I got just as lonesome as a man can
Be dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
Cause he was dreamin' of his sweetheart too.

We loped right on across Arkansas
I whipped her brother and whipped her pa
I found that girl with the golden hair
And she was a ridin' on the Tennessee Mare.

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood
And the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud.

A pretty little baby and the cabin floor
A little horse cold playin' round the door
I love the girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loved the Tennessee Mare.

The Tennesee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud...)