Knoxville Girl chords by Jimmy Martin

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I  (D major) met little girl in Knoxville,
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a  (G major) town we all know well  (D major) 
And every Sunday evening
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out  (E major) in her home I  (A major) dwell
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Well, we went  (D major) to take an evening walk
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About  (G major) a mile from  (D major) town
I picked a stick up off the ground
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And I  (A major) knocked that fair girl down  (D major) 
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She fell down on  (A major) her  (D major) bending knees
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For mercy  (G major) she did try  (D major) 
Sayin', Willie dear, don't kill me here
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I'm  (E major) unprepared to  (A major) die
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She never  (D major) spoke another word
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I only  (G major) beat her more  (D major) 
Until the ground around me
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Within  (A major) her blood did flow  (D major) 
I took her by her golden curls,
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I  (G major) swung her round and  (D major) round.
I threw her in the river
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that flows  (E major) to Knoxville town.  (A major) 
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Go down,  (D major) go down, you Knoxville girl,
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with your  (G major) dark and rolling eye (D major) s.
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl,
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you can  (A major) never be my bride  (D major)  (A major)  (D major)  (A major)  (D major) 
I started back to Knoxville,
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got there  (G major) about midnight
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 (D major) My mother, she was weary
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and woke  (E major) up in the fray  (A major) 
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Saying,  (D major) son, oh son,
what have you done
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to bloody  (G major) your poor soul?  (D major) 
I told my aching mother,
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I've been bleeding  (A major) at my  (D major) nose
I call for me a candle
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to light  (G major) myself to bed  (D major) 
I call for me a handkerchief
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to bind  (E major) my aching  (A major) head
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I roll  (D major) and tumble the whole night through
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for troubles  (G major) were for me  (D major) 
Like flames of hell around my bed
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Within  (A major) my eyes could see  (D major)  (A major)  (D major) 
They took me down to Nashville
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And  (G major) locked me in a  (D major) cell
My friends all tried to get me out,
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but none  (E major) could roll my  (A major) bell.
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I'm  (D major) here to waste my life away,
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down  (G major) in this dirty old  (D major) jail.
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl,
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a  (A major) girl I love so well.  (D major) you