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Tennessee Stud by Jimmy Driftwood
Tennessee Stud
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:A
Capo:3rd fret
[Intro]
e |---0-----------------0--|---0-----------------0--|
b |---2------0----------2--|---2------0----------2--|
G |---2------0-------2--2--|---2------0-------2--2--|
D |---2------0-------2--2--|---2------0-------2--2--|
A |-0--------------0-------|-0--------------0-------|
E |-------0h3--------------|-------0h3--------------|
e |---------------------------|----------------------|
b |---------------------------|----------------------|
G |-------------------------2-|-------------------2--|
D |-2-------------------------|-2-0---------------2--|
A |-----4-2-0------0-0-0--4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0--|
E |-----------2-0-------------|-----------2-0--------|
[Verse 1]
A
Along about eighteen and twenty-five
G
I left Tennessee very much alive
A
I never would have got through the Arkansas mud
A G A Em7 A
If I hadn't been a-ridin on the Tennessee stud
A
I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
G
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
A
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud
A Em7 A Em7 A
And I rode away on the Tennessee stud
[Chorus]
A A7
The Tennessee stud was long and lean
D F/C E/B E
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
A
He had the nerve and he had the blood
A G A
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud
[Bridge]
e |---------------------------|----------------------|
b |---------------------------|----------------------|
G |---------------------------|-------------------2--|
D |-2-0---------------------2-|-2-0---------------2--|
A |-----4-2-0------0-0-0--4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0--|
E |-----------2-0-------------|-----------2-0--------|
[Verse]
A
One day I was ridin' in a beautiful land
G
And ran smack into an Indian band
A
They jumped their nags with a whoop and a yell
A
And away we went like a bat out of...
A
Well, I circled our camp for a time or two
G
Just to show what a Tennessee hoss can do
A
The redskin boys couldn't get my blood
A Em7 A
'Cause I was a-ridin' on the Tennessee stud
[Bridge]
e |---------------------------|----------------------|
b |---------------------------|----------------------|
G |---------------------------|-------------------2--|
D |-2-0---------------------2-|-2-0---------------2--|
A |-----4-2-0------0-0-0--4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0--|
E |-----------2-0-------------|-----------2-0--------|
[Verse]
A
We drifted on down into no man's land
G
Crossed a river called the Rio Grande
A
I raced my hoss with the Spaniards bold
A Em7
Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold
A
Me and a gambler we couldn't agree
G
We got in a fight over Tennessee
A
We jerked our guns, he fell with a thud
A G A Em7 A
An' I got away on the Tennessee stud
[Chorus]
A A7
The Tennessee stud was long and lean
D F/C E/B E
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
A
He had the nerve and he had the blood
A G A
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud
[Bridge]
e |---------------------------|----------------------|
b |---------------------------|----------------------|
G |---------------------------|-------------------2--|
D |-2-0---------------------2-|-2-0---------------2--|
A |-----4-2-0------0-0-0--4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0--|
E |-----------2-0-------------|-----------2-0--------|
[Verse]
A
Well, I got as lonesome as a man can be
G
A-dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
A
The Tennessee stud's green eyes turned blue
A G A
'Cause he was a-dreamin' of a sweetheart too
A
We loped right on across Arkansas
G
I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa
A
I found that girl with the golden hair
A Em7 A
And she was ridin' on a Tennessee mare
[Bridge]
e |---------------------------|----------------------|
b |---------------------------|----------------------|
G |---------------------------|-------------------2--|
D |-2-0---------------------2-|-2-0---------------2--|
A |-----4-2-0------0-0-0--4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0--|
E |-----------2-0-------------|-----------2-0--------|
[Verse]
A
Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
G
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
A
We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood
A Em7 A G A
On the Tennessee mare and the Tennessee stud
A
Purty little baby on the cabin floor
G
Little hoss colt playin' 'round the door
A
I love the girl with golden hair
A G A Em7 A
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare
[Chorus]
A A7
The Tennessee stud was long and lean
D F/C E/B E
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
A
He had the nerve and he had the blood
A G A
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud
[Outro]
e |---------------------------|----------------------|
b |---------------------------|----------------------|
G |-------------------------2-|-------------------2--|
D |-2-0-----------------------|-2-0---------------2--|
A |-----4-2-0------0-0-0--4---|-----4-2-0-----0-0-0--|
E |-----------2-0-------------|-----------2-0--------|
fades
e |---0------0-------------|---0------0-------------|
b |---2------2-----0----0--|---2------2-----0----0--|
G |----------------0----0--|----------------0----0--|
D |-------2----------------|-------2----------------|
A |-0----------------2-----|-0----------------2-----|
E |--------------0---------|--------------0---------|
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