Traditional - Knoxville Girl guitar chord

Knoxville Girl

arrangement by Roger Alan Wade

F Bb F

I met a girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well

G7 C

Every Sunday evening out in her home I'd dwell

F Bb F

We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town

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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 Willy 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 golden 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 girl, you can never be my bride

I started back to Knoxville, got there about 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 hankerchief to bind my aching head

Roll and tumbled all 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 could go my bail

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

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