Knoxville Girl

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I met a little girl in knoxville



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A town we all know well



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And every sunday evening



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Out in her home i'd dwell



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We decided to take an evening walk



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About a mile from town



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I picked a stick up off the ground



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And beat that fair girl down





(right here you go nuts all over the d chord for two bars)





(verse 2)



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She fell down on her bended knee for mercy she did cry



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"oh willy dear, don't kill me here, i'm unprepared to die."



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She never spoke another word, i only beat her more.



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Until the ground around us, with all her blood did pour.



(nuts on the d)





(verse 3)



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I took her by her golden curls and drug her round and round,



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Throwing(ed) her into the river that flows through knoxville town.



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Go down, go down you knoxville girl with dark and rolling eye.



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Go down, go down you knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.



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(verse 4)



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I headed back to knoxville, got there about midnight.



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My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright.



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Saying, "dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so?"



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I told my anxious mother i was bleeding out my nose.



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(verse 5)



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I called for me a candle to light myself to bed.



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I called for me a hankercheif to bind my aching head



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Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as troubles was for me



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Like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see



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(verse 6)



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They carried me down to knoxville and put me in a cell



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My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail



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I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail.



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Because i murdered that knoxville girl,



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The girl i loved so



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Well...

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