Knoxville Girl lyrics

Song information

Artist: Lemonheads
Album: Car Button Cloth

Lyrics

(Verse 1)

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I met a little girl in knoxville

G d
A town we all know well

D
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

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)

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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."

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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)

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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

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..

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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