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Song Name: Tennessee Stud By: Doc Watson, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash
Posted By: Turkey_Man Difficulty: Any
Key: C Genre: Folk
Harp Type: Chromatic
Created: 2015-02-01 15:53:30 Modified: 2015-02-03 09:03:57


Song:

 

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A-long a-bout eight-een and twen-ty five

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I left Ten-nes-see ve-ry much a-live

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I ne-ver would have made it through

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The Ar-kan-sas mud

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If I had-n’t been a ri-din’ on the

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Ten-nes-see stud.

 

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The Ten-nes-see stud was long and lean

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The co-lor 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 ne-ver was a horse like the

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Ten-nes-see stud

 

Had some trouble with my sweetheart’s pa

One of her brothers was a bad outlaw

I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud   

An I rode away on the

Ten-nes-see stud

 

I rode right back across Arkansas

I whipped her brother and I whipped her Pa

I found that girl with the golden hair 

She was ridin’ on a Tennessee mare 

 

Pretty little baby on the cabin floor 

Little horse colt playing round the door 

I loved the girl with the golden hair 

And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

 

 

some of the many verses to this song