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)
     D                                 G            D
She fell down on her bended knee for mercy she did cry
     D                                  G              A
Oh Willy dear, don't kill me here, I'm unprepared to die.
     D                          G             D
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more.
   D                              G                 D
Until the ground around us, with all her blood did pour.
(Nuts on the D)
(verse 3)
   D                                G                   D
I took her by her golden curls and drug her round and round,
   D                                  G                       A
throwing(ed) her into the river that flows through Knoxville town.
    D                                     G                D
Go down, go down you Knoxville girl with dark and rolling eye.
    D                                        G            D
Go down, go down you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.
 D
(verse 4)
    D                             G           D
I headed back to Knoxville, got there about midnight.
    D                        G             A
My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright.
  D                                       G                D
Saying, dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so?
   D                             G              D
I told my anxious mother I was bleeding out my nose.
 D
(verse 5)
   D                          G              D
I called for me a candle to light myself to bed.
   D                              G              A
I called for me a hankercheif to bind my aching head
  D                                             G              D
Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as troubles was for me
  D                              G                 D
Like flames of Hell around my bed and in my eyes could see
 D
(verse 6)
       D                               G           D 
They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell
     D                                  G                A
My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail
     D                              G                  D  
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
  D(once) 
well...