Tennessee Stud lyrics

Artist  : Ramblin` Jack Elliot 
Song : Tennessee Stud
 


Along about eighteen and twenty-five
I left
Tennessee very much alive
I never would have
made it through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't
been a-riding on the Tennessee
Stud


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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


I had some 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

One day I was riding in a beautiful
land
I run smack into an Indian band
They
jumped their nags with a whoop and a yell
And
away we rode like a bat out of Hell

I
circled their camp for a time or two
Just to
show what a Tennessee horse can do
The redskin
boys couldn't get my blood
'Cause I was
a-riding on the Tennessee Stud

I drifted
on down into no man's land
I crossed the river
called the Rio Grande
I raced my horse with
the Spaniards bold
'Til I got me a skinful 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

Well I got as lonesome as a man can
be
A-dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
And
the Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned
blue
'Cause he was a-dreaming of a sweetheart
too

I loped on back across Arkansas
And
I whupped her brother and I whupped 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
And a little horse
colt playing 'round the door
I love the girl
with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud
loves the Tennessee Mare.