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by Jimmy Driftwood |
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Along about eighteen and twenty-five |
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I left Tennessee very much alive |
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I never would have got through the |
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Arkansas mud |
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If I hadn't been a-ridin on the |
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Tennessee stud |
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I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa |
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One of her brothers was a bad outlaw |
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I sent her a letter by my |
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Uncle Fud |
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And 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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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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One day I was ridin' in the beautiful land |
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And ran smack into an |
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Indian band |
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They jerked their knives with a whoop and a yell |
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But I rode away like a bat out of hell |
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Well I circled their camp for a time or two |
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And showed what a |
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Tennessee hoss could do |
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And them redskin boys never got my blood ' |
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Cause I was a-ridin' on the |
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Tennessee stud |
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CHORUS We drifted on down into no man's land |
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We crossed the river called the |
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Rio Grande |
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I raced my hoss with the |
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Spaniards bold |
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Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold |
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Me and a gambler we couldn't agree |
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We got in a fight over |
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Tennessee |
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We jerked our guns, 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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CHORUS Well, |
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I got as lonesome as a man can be |
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Dreamin' of my girl in |
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Tennessee |
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The Tennessee stud's green eyes turned blue ' |
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Cause he was a-dneamin' of a sweetheart too |
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We loped on back across |
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Arkansas I whipped her brother and |
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I whipped her pa |
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I found that girl with the golden hair |
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And she was ridin' on a |
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Tennessee mare |
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CHORUS Stirrup to stirrup and side by side |
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We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide |
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We came to |
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Big Muddy and we forded the flood |
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On the Tennessee mare and the |
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Tennessee stud |
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Pretty little baby on the cabin floor |
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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 |
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CHORUS |
