Jimmie Driftwood Tennessee Stud Live Video 1967 Jimmie Driftwood Tennessee Stud Lyrics Back about eighteen and twenty five I left Tennessee very much alive I never would've made it through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee stud Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa One of her brothers was a bad outlaw I wrote a letter to my uncle Spud 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