Tennessee Stud
 Johnny Cash

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

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 Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa
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 One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
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 I wrote a letter to my Uncle Fudd
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 And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

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|The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
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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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|There never was a horse like Tennessee Stud

 Drifted on down into no man's land
 Across the river called the Rio Grande
 Raced my horse with the Spaniard's foe
 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
 Pulled our guns and he fell with a thud
 And I rode away on a Tennessee Stud

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 I rode right back across Arkansas
 I whupped her brother and I whupped her Pa
 I found that girl with the golden hair
 She was riding 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

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Enjoy!