Roger Alan Wade - Knoxville Girl guitar chord

Knoxville Girl

from the album "All Likkered Up"

tabbed 9/25/05

N/C

I met a girl in Knoxville

C G

A town we all know well

A7 D

Every Sunday evenin' out in her home I'd dwell

G

We went to take an evenin' walk

C G

About a mile from town

C G D G

I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fat girl down

She fell down on her bended knee

For mercy she did cry

Oh Willie dear, don't kill me here, I'm not prepared to die

She never spoke another word

I only beat her more

Until the ground around me with her blood did flow

I took her by her gold curls

And dragged her 'round and 'round

Throwed her in the river that flows thru Knoxville town

Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl

With dark and rollin' eyes

Go down, go down, you Knoxville, you never could be my bride

I started back to Knoxville

Got there 'bout midnight

My mother she was worried, she woke up in a fright

Sayin' dear son, what have you done

To bloody your clothes so

I told my anxious mother I was bleeding at the nose

I called for me a candle

To light myself to bed

I called for me a handkerchief to bind my achin' head

Roll and tumbled whole night thru

As troubles was for me

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

They carried me down to Knoxville

And put me in a cell

My friends tried to get me out, but none would put my bail

I'm here to waste my life away

Down in this dirty old jail

Because I murdered that Knoxville girl, the girl I loved so well