Key: D major
Verse 1
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I met a 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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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 knee,
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for mercy she did cry
Saying, Willard, dear, don't kill me here
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I'm unprepared to die
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I only beat her more
Until the crap around her
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in her blood did pour
I took her by her golden curls
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and I drugged her round and round
Throwing her into the river
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that runs through Knoxville town
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with the 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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and woke up in a fright
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to bloody your closed soul?
I told my anxious mother
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I was bleeding at my nose
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to light my way to bed
I call for me a handkerchief
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to bind my aching head
whole night through,
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such troubles weren't for me
And flames of hell around my bed
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were all that I could see
They took me down to Knoxville
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and put me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out,
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but none could go my bail
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down here in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl,
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a girl I loved so well you
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