REQ: lyrics to Tennessee Stud
Sarah Bryan
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.
For the rest, check out Doc Watson's Songs for Little Pickers. I think that's
where he recorded it.
Lizard King
> I sat down to play this the other day with a friend of mine, and we found
> we had both more or less forgotten it. We finally came up with the melody
> and chords, but couldn't get past the first verse (well, okay, _half_ of
> the first verse...)
> Anyone out there with a better memory than I have?
> Thanks -
> - Darci
Along about 1825 I left Tennessee very much alive,
I never would have gotten through the Arkansas mud if I hadn't
been riding on the Tennessee Stud.
I had some trouble with my sweethearts paw,
and one of her brothers was a bad outlaw,
I sent her a letter by my uncle Fud (?)
and I rode 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.
One day I was riding through a beautiful land when I ran smack
into an indian band.
They jumped their nags with a whoop and a yell,
and away we went like a bat out of, Well.....
I circled their camp for a time or two,
to show them what a Tennessee horse can do.
Them redskin boys couldn't get my blood cause I was riding
on the Tennessee Stud.
Chorus
So we drifted on down into no-mans land,
and we crossed that river called the Rio Grande.
I raced my horse with the Spaniards bold,
'till I got me skin full of silver and gold.
Me and a gambler, well we couldn't agree.
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
I got just as lonesome as a man can be,
dreaming of my girl in Tennessee.
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue,
'cause he was dreaming of his sweetheart too.
We loped right back across Arkansas.
I whooped her brother and I beat up her paw.
When I found that girl with the golden hair,
she was riding on a Tennessee mare.
Chorus
Stirrup to stirrup and side by side,
we crossed the mountains and the valleys wide.
Came to Big Muddy then we forded the flood,
on the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud.
Pretty little baby on the cabin floor.
Little horse colt playing around the door.
I love that girl with the golden hair,
and the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare.
Chorus
Dave Douglass
clar...@raven.csrv.uidaho.edu writes:
>Subject: Re: REQ: lyrics to Tennessee Stud
>From: Lizard King, clar...@raven.csrv.uidaho.edu
>Date: 8 May 1995 00:11:48 GMT
Back in the mid 60's I looked up Jimmy Driftwood (the author of Tennessee
Stud) at his home in Timbo, Arkansas and had a thoroughly good time
taping his stories and music. Before he sang Tennessee Stud he said that
it was based on his actual family history. Maybe this will add some
extra fun to singing the story for you. I think about it every time I
hear it.
Fiddler999
Fletcher Bright, 118 N Hermitage Av Lookout Mtn TN 37350