Tennessee Stud Lyrics - Chris Ledoux

Along about eighteen twenty five 

I left Tennessee very much alive 

I never would have forded the Arkansas mud 

If I hadn't been a riding on 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 Fudd 

And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud 

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean mean 

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 

We drifted on down into no man's land 

We crossed the river called the Rio Grande 

I raced my horse with a Spaniard's foal 

'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold 

Me and a 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 

Well, I got as lonesome as a man can be 

Dreaming of my girl in Tennessee 

The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue 

'Cause he was a dreaming of his sweetheart too 

We loped right back across Arkansas 

I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa 

I found that girl with the golden hair 

And she was a riding on the Tennessee Mare 

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean mean 

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 

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side 

We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide 

We came to Big Muddy and forded the flood 

On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud 

Pretty little baby on the cabin floor 

A little horse colt playing 'round the door 

I love the girl with the golden hair 

And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare 

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean mean 

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