Knoxville Girl
Charlie Louvin

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I met a little girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well
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And every Sunday evening, out in her home, I'd dwell
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We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town
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I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down

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She fell down on her bended knees, 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 me within her blood did flow

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I took her by her golden curls and I drug her round and round
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Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl with the dark and rolling eyes
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride

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I started 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 at my nose

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I called for me a candle to light myself to bed
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I called for me a handkerchief 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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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, the girl I loved so well
