Tennessee Stud2-crd   Doc Watson

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Subject: Another version of "Tennessee Stud" 

Tennessee Stud
By: Doc Watson

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Along about eighteen twenty five, 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 ridin' that Tennessee Stud.

I had me some trouble with my sweetheart's Paw, One o' her 
brothers was a bad outlaw. Sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud, Then 
I rode away on the Tennessee Stud.
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The Tennessee Stud was long and lean, The color of the sun and his 
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eyes were green.  He had the nerve and he had the blood, 
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And there never was a horse like The Tennessee Stud.

We drifted on down in-ta no man's land, And crossed that river 
called the Rio Grande. I raced my hoss with a Spaniard's foal, 
'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold.

Me and the gambler we couldn't agree, We got in a fight over 
Tennessee, We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud, And I got 
away on the Tennessee Stud.
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Well, I got just as lonesome as a man could be, A dreamin' of my 
girl in Tennessee. The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue, 
'Cause he was A dreamin' of his sweetheart too.

We loped right back across Arkansas, I whooped her brother and I 
whooped her Paw. When I found that girl with the golden hair, She 
was a ridin' on a Tennessee Mare.  Whoa Boy
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Stirrup to stirrup and side by side, We crossed them mountains and 
the valleys wide. When we came to big muddy, had to ford a flood, 
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud.

There's a prety little baby on the cabin floor, frisky little colt 
runnin' 'round the door. I love that girl with the golden hair, 
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee Mare.
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