Tennessee Stud (Vanguard Version)

Along about eighteen twenty-five,

I left Tennessee very much alive.

I never would have got through the

Arkansas mud

If I hadn't been a-ridin' on the

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 Bud,

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 riding in a beautiful land

I run smack into an

Indian band

They jumped their nags with a whoop and a yell

And away we rode like a bat out of hell.

I circled their camp for a time or two,

Just to show what a

Tennessee horse can do.

The redskin boys couldn't get my blood,'

Cause I was a-riding on the

Tennessee

Stud.We drifted on down into no man's land,

We crossed that river called the

Rio Grande.

I raced my horse with the

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.I got just as lonesome as a man can be,

Dreamin' of my girl in

Tennessee.

The Tennessee

Stud's green eyes turned blue'

Cause he was a-dreamin' of a 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.Stirrup to stirrup and side by side,

We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide.

We came to

Big Muddy, then we forded the flood

On the Tennessee

Mare and the

Tennessee

Stud.A pretty little baby on the cabin floor,

A little horse colt playing 'round the door,

I love that girl with the golden hair,

And the Tennessee

Stud loves the

Tennessee

Mare.