Tennesee Stud Lyrics - Johnny Cash

Along about eighteen and twenty-five 

I left Tennessee very much alive 

I never would have made it through 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 wrote a letter to my Uncle Thud 

And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud 

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean 

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 

One day I was ridin' in a beautiful land 

and run smack into an Indian band 

They jumped their nags with a hoop and a yell 

A I rode away like a bat outta hell 

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I circled their camp for a time or two 

just to show what the Tennessee stud could do 

Them redskin boys couldn't get my blood 

Cuz I was aridin' on the Tennessee Stud 

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Rode on down into no man's land 

I crossed the river called the Rio Grande 

I raced my horse with the Spaniards bold 

'Til I got me a skinful of silver and gold 

Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree 

We got in a fight over Tennessee 

We jerked our guns, he fell with a thud 

And I got away on the Tennessee Stud 

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean 

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 

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I rode on back across Arkansas 

And I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa 

I found that girl with the golden hair 

And she was a-riding on a Tennessee Mare 

Stirrup to stirrup and side by sie 

We crossed the plains andthe valleys wide 

Come to Big Muddy and the foot of the flood 

on the Tennessee mare and the Tennessee Stud 

Pretty little baby on the cabin floor 

And 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 

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