Meat Puppets - Tennessee Stud lyrics

[Verse 1] In eighteen and 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 a little trouble with my sweetheart's pa One of her brothers was a bad outlaw I sent her a letter by 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 [Verse 2] Drifted on down into no man's land Crossed the river called the Rio Grande I raced my pony with the Spaniard's fold And I won me a sack full of silver and gold Me and the Spainiad, we couldn't agree We got in a fight over Tennessee Pulled our pistols and he fell with a thud And I rode away on my Tennessee stud [Chorus] [Verse 3] I went back to Arkansas Whipped her brother and I whipped her pa Found me the girl with the golden hair And she was ridin' on the Tenessee mare Little baby crawlin' on the cabin floor Little full colt playin' 'round the door I love the girl with golden hair And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare [Chorus]