Tennessee Stud Lyrics - Will The Circle Be Unbroken (30th Anniversary Edition) - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Along about eighteen twenty-five 

I left Tennessee very much alive 

And I never would have gotten through the Arkansas mud 

If I hadn't been a-ridin that Tennessee stud 

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa 

And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw 

I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud 

And 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 eyes were green 

A-He had the nerve and he had the blood 

And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud 

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We drifted on down into no man's land 

We crossed that river called the Rio Grande 

I raced my hoss with the Spaniard's foal 

Till 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 

The Tennessee stud was long and lean 

The color of the sun and his eyes were green 

A-He had the nerve and he had the blood 

And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud 

Well I got just as lonesome as a man can be 

A-Dreaming of my girl in Tennessee 

The Tennessee stud's green eyes turned blue 

Cause he was a-dreamin' of his sweetheart, too 

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We loped right back across Arkansas 

I whoop her brother and I whoop her pa 

When I found that girl with the golden hair 

And she was A-ridin' that Tennessee mare (whoa, boy) 

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 hoss like the Tennessee stud 

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side 

We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide 

We came into Big Muddy then we forded a flood 

On the Tennessee mare and the Tennessee stud 

There's a pretty little baby on the cabin floor 

A little hoss colt playin' 'round the door 

I love the girl with golden hair 

And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare (They'se good hosses) 

The Tennessee stud was long and lean 

The color of the sun and his eyes were green 

And he had the nerve and he had the blood 

And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud