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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In her home I'd dwell
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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
She fell down on her bended knees
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For mercy she did cry
"Oh Willy, dear, don't kill me yet
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I'm unprepared to die"
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I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
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With her blood did flow
I took her by her golden curls
Throwing her into the river
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That flows from Knoxville town
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With your dark and roving 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
My mother, she was worried
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She woke up in a fright
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To bloody up your clothes?"
I told my anxious mother
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That I was bleading in my nose
I called for me a candle
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And I called for me a bed
And I called for me a handkerchief
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To bind my aching head
whole night through
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All horrors I did see
The devil stood at the foot of my bed
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Pointing his finger at me
They carried 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 grow my bail
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Down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl
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The girl I loved so well
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