[Verse 1]

Along about eighteen twenty-five

I left Tennessee very much alive

I never would have got through the Arkansas mud

If I hadn't been a-ridin' on the Tennessee Stud

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa

And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw

I sent her a letter by my Uncle Bud

And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

[Chours]

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

The color of the sun, and his eyes were green

He had the nеrve and he had the blood

And thеre never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

[Verse 2]

We drifted on down into no man's land

We crossed that river called the Rio Grande

I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foal

'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold

Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree

We got in a fight over Tennessee

We jerked our guns, and he fell with a thud

And I got away on the Tennessee Stud

[Chorus]

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

The color of the sun, and his eyes were green

He had the nerve and he had the blood

And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

[Verse 3]

I got just as lonesome as a man can be

Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee

The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue

'Cause he was a-dreamin' of a sweetheart, too

We loped right back across Arkansas

I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa

I found that girl with the golden hair

And she was a-riding on the Tennessee Mare

[Chorus]

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

The color of the sun, and his eyes were green

He had the nerve and he had the blood

And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud

[Verse 4]

Stirrup-to-stirrup and side-by-side

We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide

We came to Big Muddy, then we forded the flood

On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud

A pretty little baby on the cabin floor

A little horse colt playing 'round the door

I love that girl with the golden hair

And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

[Chorus]

The Tennessee Stud was long and lean

The color of the sun, and his eyes were green

He had the nerve and he had the blood

And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud