Key: G major
Verse 1
town we all know well
And every Sunday evening,
in her home I dwell
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 fair girl down
She fell down on her bended knees,
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for mercy she did cry
Her will is out to kill me
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and I'm unprepared to die
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I only beat her more
Until the crowd around me,
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with their blood, just fell
I took her by her golden curls
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and dragged her round and round
I threw her into the river,
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and blew us from Knoxville town
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with your dark and gloomy eyes
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl,
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you can't ever be my bride
I started back to Knoxville,
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got there about midnight
My mother, she was worried,
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she woke up in a fray
what have you done
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to bloody up your clothes?
I told my anxious mom,
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I was bleeding in my nose
And I called for me a candle,
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I called for me a bed
I called for me a handkerchief
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to bind my aching head
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all I was I did see
Today we stood at the foot of my bed,
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but morning is later in May
They brought me back to Knoxville,
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and they put me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out,
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but no one could prove my bail
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down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered an Oxford girl,
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a girl I loved so well
Because I murdered an Oxford girl,
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Em
a girl I loved so well
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C D A Em
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