Pre>(verse 1)

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I 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

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I 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)

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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.

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

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

(nuts on the d)

(verse 3)

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

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Throwing(ed) her into the river that flows through knoxville town.

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Go down, go down you knoxville girl with dark and rolling eye.

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Go down, go down you knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.

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(verse 4)

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I headed back to knoxville, got there about midnight.

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

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

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

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(verse 5)

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

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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

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(verse 6)

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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.

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Because I murdered that knoxville girl,

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The girl I loved so

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Well...
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