pre>(verse 1)

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I met a little girl in knoxville

G d
A town we all know well

D
And every sunday evening

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Out in her home i'd dwell

D
We decided to take an evening walk

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About a mile from town

D
I picked a stick up off the ground

G d
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."

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

D g d
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,

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

D g d
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.

D


(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?"

D g d
I told my anxious mother i was bleeding out my nose.

D


(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

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

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

D


(verse 6)

D g d
They carried me down to knoxville and put me in a cell

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

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

D
Because i murdered that knoxville girl,

G(once)
The girl i loved so

D(once)
Well...
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