[00:18.868]Along about eighteen twenty-five [00:21.723]I left Tennessee very much alive [00:25.281]I never would've made it [00:26.533]through the Arkansas mud [00:27.984]If I hadn't been ridin'g on the Tennessee Stud [00:35.397]Had a trouble with my sweetheart's Pa [00:38.000]One of her brothers was a bad outlaw [00:41.763]I sent her a letter about my Uncle Fudd [00:44.068]And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud [00:49.126]The Tennessee Stud was long and lean [00:51.589]The color of the sun and his eyes were green [00:56.538]He had the nerve and he had the blood [00:59.041]And there never was a horse like Tennessee Stud [01:05.041] [01:19.786]We drifted on down into no man's land [01:22.319]Across that river called Rio Grande [01:26.448]I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foe [01:28.803]'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold [01:36.399]Now me and the gambler we couldn't agree [01:38.859]We got in a fight over Tennessee [01:42.868]We jurked our guns and he fell with a thud [01:45.371]And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud [01:50.125]The Tennessee Stud was long and lean [01:52.681]The color of the sun and his eyes were green [01:57.634]He had the nerve and he had the blood [02:00.142]And there never was a horse [02:01.543]like Tennessee Stud [02:04.543] [02:47.434]We rode right back across Arkansas [02:50.388]I whupped her brother and I whupped her Pa [02:53.993]When I found that girl with the golden hair [02:56.647]She was ridin'that Tennessee Mare [03:04.089]Now there's a little baby on the cabin floor [03:06.339]A little horse colt playin' out the door [03:10.594]I loved the girl with the golden hair [03:12.946]And the Tennessee Stud [03:14.097]loves the Tennessee Mare [03:17.706]The Tennessee Stud was long and lean [03:20.256]The color of the sun and his eyes were green [03:25.258]He had the nerve and he had the blood [03:27.905]And there never was a horse [03:29.184]like Tennessee Stud