Knoxville Girl chords by
Okkervil River

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

D

D

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G

G

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C

C

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I met a lil' girl in Knoxville town,

we all know well

G

G

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And every Sunday evening,

D

D

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within her hole, I'd dwell

G

G

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I took her for an evening walk

C

C

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G

G

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about a half a mile from town

I picked a stick up off the ground

D

D

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G

G

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and knocked that fair girl down

Verse 2

G

G

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She fell down on her bended knee,

C

C

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G

G

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for mercy she did cry

"Oh Willie, dear, don't kill me here,

D

D

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I'm unprepared to die"

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G

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She never spoke another word,

C

C

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G

G

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I only beat her more

D

D

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Until the ground around her wet,

her blood did flow

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G

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Verse 3

I took her by her golden curls,

C

C

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G

G

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I swung her round and round

D

D

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I threw her in the river that runs

through Knoxville town

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G

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Go there, go there,

you Knoxville girl

C

C

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G

G

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With your dark and roaming eye

Go there, go there,

you Knoxville girl

D

D

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You're never gonna be

my bride

G

G

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Verse 4

Well, I started out walking home,

C

C

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got there about midnight

G

G

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My mother, she was worried,

D

D

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she woke up in a fright

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G

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She said, "My son,

C

C

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G

G

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what have you done to bloody your clothes?"

I told my anxious mother I'd been

D

D

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bleeding at my nose

G

G

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Verse 5

They took me down to Knoxville,

C

C

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G

G

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they locked me in a cell

I said my friends to get me out,

D

D

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but none would go my bail

G

G

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So now I'm down in Knoxville,

C

C

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G

G

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I am locked in this dirty old cell

But they can only kill me,

D

D

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I don't believe in hell

Outro 1

G

G

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C

C

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D

D

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G

G

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