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Along about eighteen 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 |
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Stud.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 Bud, |
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And I rode away on the |
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Tennessee |
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Stud.The Tennessee |
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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 horse like the |
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Tennessee |
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Stud.One day |
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I was riding in a beautiful land |
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I run smack into an |
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Indian band |
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They jumped their nags with a whoop and a yell |
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And away we rode like a bat out of hell. |
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I circled their camp for a time or two, |
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Just to show what a |
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Tennessee horse can do. |
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The redskin boys couldn't get my blood,' |
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Cause I was a-riding on the |
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Tennessee |
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Stud.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 horse with the |
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Spaniard's foal' |
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Til 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, and he fell with a thud, |
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And I got away on the |
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Tennessee |
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Stud.I got just 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 |
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Stud's green eyes turned blue' |
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Cause he was a-dreamin' of a sweetheart, too, |
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We loped right back across |
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Arkansas;I whupped her brother and |
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I whupped her pa. |
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I found that girl with the golden hair, |
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And she was a-riding on the |
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Tennessee |
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Mare.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, then we forded the flood |
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On the Tennessee |
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Mare and the |
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Tennessee |
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Stud.A pretty little baby on the cabin floor, |
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A little horse colt playing 'round the door, |
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I love that girl with the golden hair, |
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And the Tennessee |
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Stud loves the |
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Tennessee |
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Mare. |
