Knoxville Girl chords by Charlie Louvin
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Verse 1
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I met a little girl in Knoxville,
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a town we all know well
And every Sunday evening
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out in her home I'd dwell
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We went to take an evening walk
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About a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
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And knocked that faggum down
She fell down on her bended knees
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For mercy she did cry
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here,
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I'm unprepared to die
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She never spoke another word,
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I only beat her down
Until the ground around me,
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within her blood, declined
I took her by her golden curls
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and I drove her round and round
Throwing her into the river
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that flows through Knoxville town
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
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With the dark and roving eyes
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
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You can never be my guy
I started back to Knoxville
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Got there about midnight
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My mother, she was worried
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and woke up in a fright
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Saying, dear son, what have you done
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to bloody your close soul?
I told my anxious mother
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I was bleeding at my nose
I call for me a candle
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to light myself to bed
I call for me a handkerchief
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to bind my aching head
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Rolled and tumbled the
whole night through
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as troubles was for me
Like flames of hell around my bed
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and in my eyes could see
They carried me down to Knoxville
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and put me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out
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But none could go, my babe
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I'm here to waste my life away
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Down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl
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The girl I love so well you
Knoxville Girl
Charlie Louvin
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