Key: G major
Verse 1
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There in a town of Knoxville
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I used to live and dwell
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And in that little Knoxville town
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I owned a flour mill
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I fell in love with a Knoxville girl
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With dark and rolling eyes
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I promised her I'd marry her,
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it was she'd never deny
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I asked her to take a walk with me
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down through the meadow gate
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That we might have a social talk
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and name our wedding day
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We walked alone, we talked alone
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And knocked that fair girl down
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She fell upon her bending knee
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Oh Lord, have mercy, she cried
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Willie, my dear, don't murder me, dear
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I'm not prepared to die
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I mare and mare every word she said
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I beat her more and more
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I beat her till the ground around
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Stood in a bloody gore
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I stabbed her with a dagger,
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which was a big, knife
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I threw her in the river,
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which was a dreadful sigh
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that Knoxville girl was found
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Flowin' down the still water deep
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that flowed from Knoxville town
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Her sisters swore my life away,
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they swore without a doubt
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They swore that I was the very
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lad that laid their sister out
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And now they're going to hang me,
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the death I dread to die.
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between the earth and sky.
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