Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Knoxville Girl , by - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Release date: 21.03.2005
Song language: English
Knoxville Girl |
| I met a little girl in Knoxville |
| A town we all know well |
| And every Sunday evening |
| Out in her home I’d dwell |
| We went to take an evening walk |
| About a mile from town |
| I picked a stick up off the ground |
| And beat that fair girl down |
| She fell down on her bended knee, for mercy she did cry |
| Oh Willy dear, don’t kill me here, I’m unprepared to die |
| She never spoke another word, I only beat her more |
| Until the ground around us, with all her blood did pour |
| I took her by her golden curls and I drug her round and round |
| Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town |
| Go down, go down you Knoxville girl with dark and rolling eye |
| Go down, go down you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride |
| I headed back to Knoxville, got there about midnight |
| My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright |
| Saying, «dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so?» |
| I told my anxious mother I was bleeding out my nose |
| I called for me a candle to light myself to bed |
| I called for me a handkerchief to bind my aching head |
| Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as troubles was for me |
| Like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see |
| They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell |
| My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail |
| I’m here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail |
| Because I murdered that Knoxville girl, the girl I loved so well |