I've been working on an ABC+ file for this tune and the MIDI file in the DT doesn't play. I checked at YADT (click) and the file there doesn't seem right to me.

This is a version I've constructed from memory so I don't know how close it is to the original. Will someone conversent with abcm2ps.exe and GhostView—and of corse the song—please check this out for me?

Thanks,

      - Mark



X:1
T:The Tennessee Stud
C:Jimmie Driftwood
C:© Warden Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
M:4/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=140
K:D
%%MIDI program 26 % Acoustic Guitar (steel)
%%MIDI bassprog 26 % Acoustic Guitar (steel)
%%MIDI chordprog 26 % Acoustic Guitar (steel)
P:Verses
D/|"D" D/D/ F A A/F/| A<F D>D|"C" =C C/A,/ C C/A,/|
w:1.~A-long a-bout eight-een and twen-ty-five I left Ten-nes-see ver-y
w:2.~I had* some trouble with my sweet-heart's Pa,* One of her brothers was a
=C>C C2-| =C z2z/D/|"D" D/D/ F/F/ A/A/ A/F/|
w:much a-live,_ I nev-er would have made it through the
w:bad out-law,_ I sent* her a let-ter by my
A/F/ A {F}D D/D/| F/F/ F F/D/ D/D/|"A" A,/A,/ C "D"D z|
w:Ar-kan-sas mud if I had-n't been rid-in' on the Ten-nes-see Stud.
w:Unc - le Fudd, *And I* rode~a-way_ on the Ten-nes-see Stud.
P:Interlude
"D"D [F/A/d/][F/A/d/] "A"A,/[E/A/C/][E/A/C/][E/A/C/]| "D"D [FAd][F2A2d2]|\
"D"D [F/A/d/][F/A/d/] "A"A,/[E/A/C/][E/A/C/][E/A/C/]| "D"D [FAd][F3/2A3/2d3/2]
P:Refrain
D/|"D" D/D/ F A A|"C" =c>c "A"A>A|"G"G/G/ G/G/ G D/D/|
w:The Ten-nes-see Stud was long and lean, the co-lor of the sun and his
"F" =F>F "E" E2|\
w:eyes were green,
"A"A[E/A/C/e/][E/A/C/e/]"G"G[D/G/B/g/][D/G/B/g/]|\
"F"=F[F/A/=c/f/][F/A/c/f/]"E"E[E/^G/B/e/][E/^G/B/e/]|\
"D"D/ F F<A A/|
w:He had the nerve and
"C"=c c/>c/ "D"A D/D/|"D" F/F/ F F/{F}D/ D/D/|"A" A,/A,/ C "D"D z|
w:he had the blood and there nev-er was a horse like the Ten-nes-see Stud.
W:
W:One day I was riding in a beautiful land
W:I run smack into an Indian band
W:They jumped their nags with a whoop and a yell
W:And away we rode like a bat out of Hell
W:
W:I circled their camp for a time or two
W:Just to show what a Tennessee horse can do
W:The redskin boys couldn't get my blood
W:'Cause I was a-riding on the Tennessee Stud
W:
W: (refrain)
W:
W:We drifted on down into no man's land
W:We crossed the river called the Rio Grande
W:I raced my horse with the Spaniard's foal
W:'Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold
W:
W:Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree
W:We got in a fight over Tennessee
W:We jerked our guns, and he fell with a thud
W:And I got away on the Tennessee Stud
W:
W: (refrain)
W:
W:Well I got just as lonesome as a man can be
W:Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
W:And the Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
W:'Cause he was a-dreamin' of a sweetheart too
W:
W:We loped on back across Arkansas
W:I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa
W:I found that girl with the golden hair
W:And she was a-riding on the Tennessee Mare
W:
W: (refrain)
W:
W:Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
W:We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
W:We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood
W:On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud
W:
W:Pretty little baby on the cabin floor
W:And a little horse colt playing 'round the door
W:I loved the girl with the golden hair
W:And the Tennessee Stud loved the Tennessee Mare.
W:
W: (refrain)