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Along about eighteen twenty-five |
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I left Tennessee very much alive |
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And I never would have gotten through the |
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Arkansas mud |
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If I hadn't been a-ridin that |
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Tennessee stud |
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I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa |
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And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw |
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I sent her a letter by my |
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Uncle FudAnd |
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I rode away on the |
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Tennessee stud |
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CHORUS:The |
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Tennessee stud was long and lean |
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The color of the sun and his eyes were green |
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A-He had the nerve and he had the blood |
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And there never was a hoss like the |
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Tennessee stud |
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We drifted on down into no man's land |
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We crossed that river called the |
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Rio Grande |
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I raced my hoss with the |
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Spaniard's foal |
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Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold |
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Me and the gambler we couldn't agree |
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We got in a fight over |
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TennesseeWe jerked our guns, and he fell with a thud |
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And I got away on the |
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Tennessee stud |
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The Tennessee stud was long and lean |
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The color of the sun and his eyes were green |
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A-He had the nerve and he had the blood |
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And there never was a hoss like the |
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Tennessee stud |
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Well I got just as lonesome as a man can be |
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A-Dreaming of my girl in |
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TennesseeThe |
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Tennessee stud's green eyes turned blue |
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Cause he was a-dreamin' of his sweetheart, too |
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We loped right back across |
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ArkansasI whoop her brother and |
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I whoop her pa |
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When I found that girl with the golden hair |
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And she was |
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A-ridin' that |
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Tennessee mare (whoa, boy) |
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The Tennessee stud was long and lean |
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The color of the sun and his eyes were green |
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He had the nerve and he had the blood |
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And there never was a hoss like the |
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Tennessee stud |
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Stirrup to stirrup and side by side |
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We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide |
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We came into |
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Big Muddy then we forded a flood |
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On the Tennessee mare and the |
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Tennessee stud |
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There's a pretty little baby on the cabin floor |
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A little hoss colt playin' 'round the door |
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I love the girl with golden hair |
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And the Tennessee stud loves the |
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Tennessee mare (They'se good hosses) |
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The Tennessee stud was long and lean |
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The color of the sun and his eyes were green |
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And he had the nerve and he had the blood |
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And there never was a hoss like the |
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Tennessee stud |
