The Lemonheads – Knoxville Girl (Guitar)

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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 went 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

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She fell down on her bended knee 

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For mercy she did cry

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"Oh Willy dear, don't kill me here, 

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I'm unprepared to die."

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She never spoke another word, 

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I only beat her more.

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Until the ground around us, 

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With all her blood did pour.

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I took her by her golden curls 

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And drug her round and round,

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Throwing her into the river 

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That flows through Knoxville town

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Go down, go down you Knoxville girl 

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With dark and rolling eye

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Go down, go down you Knoxville girl,

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You can never be my bride

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I headed back to Knoxville, 

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Got there about midnight.

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My mother she was worried and 

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Woke up in a fright.

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Saying, "dear son what have you done to 

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Bloody your clothes so?"

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I told my anxious mother I 

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Was bleeding out my nose

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I called for me a candle to 

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Light myself to bed

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I called for me a hankercheif to 

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Bind my aching head

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Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as 

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Troubles was for me

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Like flames of Hell around my bed and 

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In my eyes could see

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They carried me down to Knoxville and 

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Put me in a cell

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My friends all tried to get me out but 

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None could go my bail

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I'm here to waste my life away down 

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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...