Tennessee Stud
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There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud
Along about eighteen and twenty-five
I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would have got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a-riding on the Tennessee Stud
I had a little trouble with my sweetheart's pa
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Thud
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud
The Tennessee 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
Well I got as lonesome as a man would be
A-dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
'Cause he was a-dreaming of a sweetheart too
I loped right on back across Arkansas
I whipped her brother and I whipped her pa
I found that girl with the golden hair
And she was a-riding on a 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
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud
Pretty little baby on the cabin floor
Little horse colt playing 'round the door
I love the girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare
