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Tennessee Stud is a song written by Jimmy Driftwood, who originally recorded and released it in 1959. The song tells a story about the adventures of a man and his horse, a courageous, sun-colored, green-eyed stallion he nicknamed the "Tennessee Stud".

Synopsis

The song's timeline appears to take place during a period of over twenty years, beginning in 1825 and ending after the Great Flood of 1844.

After some trouble with his sweetheart's father and her outlaw brother, the man sends her a letter through his uncle and then rides away on his horse, the Tennessee Stud. Together they have adventures in Arkansas, Texas, and Mexico, including outmaneuvering a band of Indians, winning big in a horse race against a Spanish foal south of the border, and then escaping after a shootout with a gambler who insulted Tennessee.

Eventually the man and his horse both become lonely and homesick, and ride back to Tennessee where the man gives his girl's father and outlaw brother their comeuppance. He and his girl, on her "Tennessee Mare", ride off together across "the mountains and the valleys wide", and then after crossing the "Big Muddy", and "fording the flood", build a cabin and settle down; the man and his girl marry and have a baby while Stud sires a colt with the Mare.




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