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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:44:02 -0600
From: roy kruse 
Subject: i.e. CRD: Knoxville Girl by The Louvin Brothers


Knoxville Girl
By:
The Louvin Brothers
From:
Justin Kruse
kruse@telepath.com

[E]                        [E7]    [A]              [E]
I met a little girl from Knoxville town we all know well
[E]                      [F#]               [B]
And every Sunday evenin^Т out in her home I dwelled
   [E]                      [E7]   [A]             [E]
We went to take an evenin^Т walk about a mile from town
[E]                                    [B]                    [E]
I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down

[E]                    [E7]    [A]                  [E]
She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry
[E]                   [F#]                        [B]
"Oh Willy dear don^Тt kill me yet I^Тm unprepared to die"
    [E]                    [E7]    [A]         [E]
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more
[E]                              [B]              [E]
Until the ground around me with it her blood did flow

[E]                    [E7]    [A]                  [E]
I took her by her golden curls and drug her round and round
[E]                      [F#]               [B]
Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town
   [E]                      [E7]   [A]             [E]
Go down go down you Knoxville girl with dark and rollin^Т eyes
[E]                                    [B]                    [E]
Go down go down you Knoxville girl you can never be my bride

[E]                  [E7]    [A]                  [E]
i started back to knoxville rigt there about midnight
[E]                      [F#]               [B]
my mother she was worried and woke up in a fright 
   [E]                      [E7]   [A]             [E]
saying dear son what have you done to bloody you clothes so
[E]                             [B]               [E]
i told my ancient mother i was bleeding from my nose

[E]             [E7]    [A]                  [E]
I called for me a candle to light myself to bed
[E]                      [F#]               [B]
i called for a hankerchief to bind my aching head
   [E]                      [E7]   [A]             [E]
rolled and tumbled the whole night through, though truble was for me
[E]                                       [B]              [E]
like flames of death around my head and then my eyes could see

[E]                [E7]    [A]                  [E]
They took me back to knoxville and put me in a cell 
[E]                      [F#]               [B]
my friends all tried to get me out but none could go the bail 
   [E]                      [E7]   [A]             [E]
I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail
[E]                                    [B]                    [E]
cause I murdered that old knoxville girl the girl I loved so well