Tennessee Stud-Doc Watson

[ti:Tennessee Stud] [ar:Doc Watson] [al:Vanguard Visionaries] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.60]Tennessee Stud - Doc Watson [00:01.72]Written by：Jimmie Drif [00:02.64] [00:11.27]Along about eighteen twenty five [00:13.63]I left Tennessee very much alive [00:16.37] [00:17.51]I never would have got through the Arkansas mud [00:19.89]If I hadn't been a ridin' on the Tennessee Stud [00:22.51] [00:24.94]I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa [00:27.45]And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw [00:30.20] [00:31.14]I sent her a letter by my Uncle Bud [00:33.54]And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud [00:36.75] [00:38.73]The Tennessee Stud was long and lean [00:41.38]The color of the sun and his eyes were green [00:43.77] [00:45.73]He had the nerve and he had the blood [00:48.11]And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud [00:51.69] [01:01.91]We drifted on down into no man's land [01:04.27]We crossed that river called the Rio Grande [01:07.42] [01:08.66]I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foal [01:11.09]'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold [01:14.32] [01:16.25]Me and a gambler we couldn't agree [01:18.65]We got in a fight over Tennessee [01:21.58] [01:22.40]We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud [01:24.71]And I got away on the Tennessee Stud [01:27.96] [01:29.86]The Tennessee Stud was long and lean [01:32.38]The color of the sun and his eyes were green [01:35.28] [01:36.65]He had the nerve and he had the blood [01:39.19]And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud [01:42.06] [01:50.47]I got just as lonesome as a man can be [01:52.71]Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee [01:56.58]The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue [01:59.00]'Cause he was a dreamin' of a sweetheart too [02:01.84] [02:04.08]We loped right back across Arkansas [02:06.43]I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa [02:08.85] [02:10.24]I found that girl with the golden hair [02:12.70]And she was a riding on the Tennessee Mare [02:15.97] [02:17.72]The Tennessee Stud was long and lean [02:20.34]The color of the sun and his eyes were green [02:23.05] [02:24.72]He had the nerve and he had the blood [02:27.07]And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud [02:30.91] [02:40.70]Stirrup to stirrup and side by side [02:43.13]We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide [02:46.08] [02:46.86]We came to big Muddy then we forded the flood [02:49.25]On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud [02:52.45] [02:54.41]A pretty little baby on the cabin floor [02:56.76]A little horse colt playing 'round the door [02:59.87] [03:00.77]I love that girl with the golden hair [03:03.09]And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare [03:06.44] [03:08.18]The Tennessee Stud was long and lean [03:10.79]The color of the sun and his eyes were green [03:13.51] [03:15.17]He had the nerve and he had the blood [03:17.51]And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud