Key: G
Introduction:
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Along about eighteen twenty five
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I left Tennessee very much alive
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And I never would got through the Arkansas mud
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If I hadn't been a-riding that Tennessee stud
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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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Then I rode away on the Tennessee stud
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The Tennessee Stud was long and mean
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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
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And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud
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And crossed that river called the Rio Grande
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I raced my hoss with a Spaniard's foal
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Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold
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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
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The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
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Cause he was dreaming bout his sweetheart too
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I whooped her brother and I whooped her Paw
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When I found that girl with the golden hair
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She was a-riding that Tennessee mare
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We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide
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We came to big muddy and then we forded a flood
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On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee stud
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And a little horse colt laying on the floor
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I love that girl with the golden hair
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And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare