Tennessee stud (vanguard version)

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.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 in a beautiful land
I run smack into an
Indian band
They jumped their nags with a whoop and a yell
And away we rode like a bat out of hell.
I circled their camp for a time or two,
Just to show what a
Tennessee horse can do.
The redskin boys couldn't get my blood,'
Cause I was a-riding on the
Tennessee
Stud.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 .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.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.