2/4 Time
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RIFF [D] [Am7] [D] [D] [Am7] [D]
[Verse]
[D] Along about [D] eighteen [D] twenty- [D] five
I [C] left [C] Tennessee [C]very much [C]alive [C]
I [D] never would've [D] made it through the [D] Arkansas [D] mud
If I [D] hadn't been [D] riding on the [Am7] Tennessee [D] Stud [Am7][ D]
[D] Had some [D] trouble with my [D] sweetheart's [D] Pa
[C] One of her [C] brothers was a [C] bad [C] outlaw [C]
I [D] wrote her a [D] letter by my [D] Uncle [D] Fudd
And [D] I rode [D] away on the [Am7] Tennessee [D] Stud [Am7][ D]
[Chorus]
The [D] Tennessee [D] Stud was [C] long and [D] lean
The [G] color of the [G] sun and his e[F]yes were[A] green [A][A]
[D] He had the [D] nerve and [D] he had the [D] blood
There [D] never was a [D] horse like [Am7]Tennessee [D]Stud [Am7] [D]
We [D] drifted on [D] down into [D] no man's [D] land
We [C] crossed that [C] river called the [C] Rio [C] Grande [C]
I [D] raced my [D] horse with the [D] Spaniard's [D] foal
Til I [D] got me a [D] skin full of [Am7] silver and [D] gold [Am7] [D]
[D] Me and a [D] gambler, we [D] couldn't [D] agree
We [C] got in a [C] fight over [C] Tennes [C] see [C]
We [D] jerked our [D] guns and he [D] fell with a [D] thud
And [D] I rode [D] away on the [Am7] Tennessee [D] Stud [Am7] [D]
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I [D] got just as [D] lonesome as a [D] man can [D] be
[C] Dreamin of my [C] girl in [C] Tennes [C] see [C]
The [D] Tennessee [D] Stud's green [D] eyes turned [D] blue
cause [D] he was a [D] dreamin of a [Am7] sweetheart too [D] [Am7] [D]
I [D] rode right [D] back across [D] Arkan [D] sas
I [C] whipped her [C] brother and I [C] whipped her [C] Pa [C]
I [D] found that [D] girl with the [D] golden [D] hair
And [D] she was [D] riding on a [Am7] Tennessee [D] Mare [Am7] [D]
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[D]Stirrup to [D] stirrup and [D] side by [D] side,
We [C] crossed the [C] mountains and the [C] valleys [C] wide. [C]
We [D] came to [D] Big Muddy, then we [D] forded the [D] flood
On the [D] Tennessee Mare [D] and the [Am7] Tennessee [D] Stud [Am7] [D]
[D]Pretty little [D] baby on the [D] cabin [D] floor
Little [C] horse [C] colt playing [C] round the [C] door [C]
I [D] loved that [D] girl with the [D] golden [D] hair
And the [D] Tennessee [D] Stud loves the [Am7] Tennessee [D] Mare [Am7] [D]
[Chorus]
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