
Date of issue: 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 |
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