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Pre>(verse 1)DI met a little girl in knoxville
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A town we all know well
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And every sunday evening
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Out in her home I'd dwell
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We decided to take an evening walk
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About a mile from town
DI picked a stick up off the ground
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And beat that fair girl down(right here you go nuts all over the d chord for two bars)(verse 2)D
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She fell down on her bended knee for mercy she did cry
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Oh willy dear, don't kill me here, I'm unprepared to die.D
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She never spoke another word, I only beat her more.D
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Until the ground around us, with all her blood did pour.(nuts on the d)(verse 3)D
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I took her by her golden curls and drug her round and round,D
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Throwing(ed) her into the river that flows through knoxville town.D
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Go down, go down you knoxville girl with dark and rolling eye.D
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Go down, go down you knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.D(verse 4)D
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I headed back to knoxville, got there about midnight.D
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My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright.D
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Saying, dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so? D
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I told my anxious mother I was bleeding out my nose.D(verse 5)D
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I called for me a candle to light myself to bed.D
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I called for me a hankercheif to bind my aching head
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Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as troubles was for me
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Like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see
D(verse 6)D
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They carried me down to knoxville and put me in a cell
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My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail
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I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail.D
Because I murdered that knoxville girl,G(once)
The girl I loved so
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Well.../pre>
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