| knoxville girl |
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| i met a little girl in knoxville, a town we all know well |
| and every sunday evening out in her home i'd dwell |
| we went to take an evening walk about a mile from town |
| i picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down |
| chorus: go down, go down you knoxville girl, with the dark and rolling eyes |
| go down, go down you knoxville girl, you can never be my bride |
| she fell down on her bended knee, for mercy did she cry |
| "oh, willie, dear, don't kill me here, i'm unprepared to die." |
| she never spoke another word, i ony beat her more |
| until the ground around me within her blood did flow |
| i went back to knoxville, got there about midnight |
| my mother, she was worried and woke up in a fright |
| saying,"dear son, what have you done to bloody yourclothes so?" |
| i told my anxious mother i was bleeding from the nose |
| i called for me a candle to light my way to bed |
| i called for me a handkerchief to bind my aching head |
| i rolled and tumbled the whole night through as trouble was for me |
| like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see |
| they carried me down to knoxville and put me in a cell |
| my friends all tried to get me outbut none could throw my bail |
| i'm here to waste my life away, down in this dirty jai |
| because i killed that knoxville girl, the girl i loved so well |
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