Back about eighteen and twenty-five   I left Tennessee very much alive   I never would have made it through the Arkansas mud   If I hadn't been ridin on the Tennessee stud      I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa   One of her brothers was a bad outlaw   I wrote a letter to 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      Drifted on down into no man's land   Across the river called the Rio Grande   I raced my horse with the Spaniards fold   Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold      Me and the gambler we couldn't agree   We got in a fight over Tennessee   We pulled our guns, an' he fell with a thud   And I rode away on the Tennessee stud      CHORUS      I rode right back across Arkansas   I whipped her brother and I whipped her pa   I found that girl with the golden hair   And she was ridin' on a Tennessee mare      CHORUS      Pretty little baby on the cabin floor   Little horse colt playin' 'round the door   I love the girl with golden hair   And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare      CHORUS