Tennessee Stud Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Jimmy Driftwood [D]wrote this thing.
Hello there. One, two, three.
Do we want to try a break?
Now,
now your fiddle break comes right after
I get back and whoop her
brother and her paw and sing a chorus.
Now that is about as pretty a bass
line
as I've heard played
in something in a long time.
I have to compliment that
boy back there.
That's a horse's foot in the gravel,
man.
That ain't [G]trained.[D]
Running through a ford in the creek.
Let's see if we can put
down a take.
Where's the harmony at, right [A]here?[D]
Along about 1825
I [C]left Tennessee very much alive
And [D]I never would have got
through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a -ruddin'
that Tennessee stud
I had some trouble with
my sweetheart's pa
And [C]one of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I [D]sent her a letter by my uncle's foot
Then I rode away on
the Tennessee [A]stud
[D]The Tennessee stud was
[C]long and [D]lean
[G]The color of the sun and
his [Bb]eyes were [A]green
He [D]had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse
like the Tennessee stud
We drifted on down into no man's land
We [C]crossed that river called Rio Grande
I [D]raced my horse with a Spaniard's foal
Till he got me a skin full of [A]silver and [D]gold
Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree
We [C]got in a fight over Tennessee
We [D]jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
And I got away on the Tennessee stud
The Tennessee stud was [C]long and [D]lean
The [G]color of the sun and
his [Bb]eyes were [A]green
He [D]had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse
like the Tennessee stud
Well, I got just as lonesome as a man can be
A [C]-dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
The [D]Tennessee stud's green
eyes turned blue
Cause he was a -dreamin' of
a sweetheart too
We loped right back across Arkansas
I [C]whooped her brother and
I whooped her paw
But when I [D]found that
girl with the golden hair
She was a -ridin' that Tennessee [A]mare
[D]The Tennessee stud was lon[C]g and lea[D]n
The [G]color of the sun in his [Bb]eyes was [A]green
He [D]had the nerve and [C]he had the [D]blood
And there never was a horse
like the Tennessee [G]stud
[Bb][A][D][C][D]
We crossed [C]them mountains
and the valleys wide
We [D]came to Big Muddy,
then we forded a flood
On the Tunisie mare
and the Tunisie stud
There's a pretty little baby
on the cabin floor
A [C]little horse coat
playin' round in the dome
I [D]love that girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee stud
loves the Tennessee mare
Says good horses
The Tennessee stud was [C]long and [D]lean
The [G]color of the sun
and his [Bb]eyes were [A]green
He [D]had the nerve and
[C]he had the [D]blood
And there never was a horse
like [D]the Tennessee stud
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