Knoxville Girl chords by Jimmy Martin
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Verse 1
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I met 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 dwell
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Well, 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 I knocked that fair girl down
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She fell down on her bending knees
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For mercy she did try
Sayin', 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 more
Until the ground around me
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Within her blood did flow
I took her by her golden curls,
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I swung her round and round.
I threw her in the river
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that flows to Knoxville town.
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl,
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with your dark and rolling eyes.
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl,
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you can never be my bride
I started back to Knoxville,
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got there about midnight
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My mother, she was weary
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and woke up in the fray
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Saying, son, oh son,
what have you done
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to bloody your poor soul?
I told my aching mother,
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I've been 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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I roll and tumble the whole night through
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for troubles were for me
Like flames of hell around my bed
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Within my eyes could see
They took me down to Nashville
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And locked me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out,
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but none could roll my bell.
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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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a girl I love so well. you
Knoxville Girl
Jimmy Martin
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