Doc Watson - Tennessee Stud Lyrics

Lyrics Tennessee Stud - Doc Watson



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.



Writer(s): James Driftwood


Doc Watson - The Vanguard Years
Album The Vanguard Years
date of release
21-11-1995

1 Rambling Hobo
2 Train That Carried My Girl from Town (Live)
3 The Coo Coo
4 Reuben's Train
5 Hick's Farewell
6 Grandfather's Clock
7 Beaumont Rag
8 Farewell Blues
9 Footprints In the Snow
10 Intoxicated Rat
11 Talk About Suffering
12 Omie Wise
13 Country Blues
14 Black Mountain Rag
15 Doc's Guitar
16 Deep River Blues
17 Muskrat
18 Dream of The Miner's Child
19 Rising Sun Blues
20 Otto Wood the Bandit
21 Little Sadie
22 Windy and Warm
23 Tennessee Stud
24 Blue Railroad Train
25 Down In the Valley to Pray
26 Dill Pickle Rag
27 The F.F.V.
28 Childhood Play
29 Streamline Cannonball
30 Old Camp Meeting Time
31 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
32 The Girl In the Blue Velvet Band
33 New River Train
34 Rank Stranger
35 Corrina Corrina
36 What Does the Deep Sea Say
37 There's More Pretty Girls Than One
38 Way Downtown
39 Brown's Ferry Blues
40 Spike Driver Blues (Live)
41 Roll On Buddy
42 I Am a Pilgrim
43 Wabash Cannon Ball
44 Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
45 The Lawson Family Murder
46 The Cuckoo
47 Alabama Bound
48 Bye Bye Bluebells (Live)
49 Kinfolks In Carolina (Live)
50 San Antonio Rose (Live)
51 Blow Your Whistle Freight Train (Live)
52 Cannonball Rag (Live)
53 I Am a Pilgrim (Live)
54 Arrangement Blues (Live)
55 I Got a Pig At Home In a Pen (Live)
56 My Rough and Rowdy Ways (Live)
57 Deep River Blues (Live)
58 Banks of the Ohio (Live)
59 A-Roving On a Winter's Night (Live)
60 Southbound (Live)
61 Memphis Blues (Live)
62 Salt Creek / Bill Cheatham (Live)
63 Brown's Ferry Blues (Live)
64 Windy and Warm (Live)




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