Knoxville Girl Lyrics

Knoxville Girl lyrics

(verse 1)

   D
I met a little girl in Knoxville

   G                D
A town we all know well

      D
And every Sunday evening

    G                A 
Out in her home I`d dwell

     D
We decided to take an evening walk
 
 G                 D
About a mile from town

    D      
I picked a stick up off the ground

     G                    D
And beat that fair girl down
(Right here you go nuts all over the d chord for two bars)
(verse 2)

              G            D
She fell down on her bended knee for mercy she did cry

               G              A
"Oh Willy dear, don`t kill me here, I`m unprepared to die."

       G             D
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more.

         G                 D
Until the ground around us, with all her blood did pour.

(Nuts on the D)
(verse 3)

           G                   D
I took her by her golden curls and drug her round and round,

             G                       A
throwing(ed) her into the river that flows through Knoxville town.

                 G                D
Go down, go down you Knoxville girl with dark and rolling eye.

                    G            D
Go down, go down you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.

 D
(verse 4)

         G           D
I headed back to Knoxville, got there about midnight.

    G             A
My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright.

                 G                D
Saying, "dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so?"

        G              D
I told my anxious mother I was bleeding out my nose.

 D
(verse 5)

     G              D
I called for me a candle to light myself to bed.

         G              A
I called for me a hankercheif to bind my aching head

                       G              D
Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as troubles was for me

        G                 D
Like flames of Hell around my bed and in my eyes could see

 D
(verse 6)

              G           D 
They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell

               G                A
My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail

           G                  D  
I`m here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail.

           
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl,

     G(once)
The girl I loved so

  D(once) 
well...