Knoxville Girl Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]I m[G]et a lil' girl in Knoxville t[C]own,
we all know well
[G]And every Sunday evening,
[D]within her hole, I'd dwell
I [G]took her for an evening walk
about a [C]half a mile from [G]town
I picked a stick up off the ground
[D]and knocked that fair girl [G]down

[Verse 2]
[G]
She fell down on her bended knee,
[C]for mercy she [G]did cry
"Oh Willie, dear, don't kill me here,
I'm [D]unprepared to die"
She [G]never spoke another word,
I [C]only beat [G]her more
Until the ground around her [D]wet,
her blood did flow
[G]

[Verse 3]
I took her by her golden curls,
I [C]swung her round [G]and round
I threw her in the river that [D]runs
through Knoxville town
[G]Go there, go there,
you Knoxville girl
[C]With your dark and roaming [G]eye
Go there, go there,
you Knoxville girl
[D]You're never gonna be
my bride
[G]

[Verse 4]
Well, I started out walking home,
got [C]there about midnight
[G]My mother, she was worried,
[D]she woke up in a fright
She [G]said, "My son,
what have you done to [C]bloody your [G]clothes?"
I told my anxious mother I'd been
[D]bleeding at my nose
[G]

[Verse 5]
They took me down to Knoxville,
[C]they locked me in a [G]cell
I said my friends to get me out,
but [D]none would go my bail
[G]So now I'm down in Knoxville,
I am [C]locked in this dirty [G]old cell
But they can only kill me,
[D]I don't believe in hell

[Outro 1]
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