Tonart: G major
Verse 1
Not when we're creating art here
Oh, okay
Verse 2
Let me, let me wash my brushes out
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I met a little girl in Knoxville,
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a town we all know well
Every Sunday evening,
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out in her home I'd dwell
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We went to take an evening walk,
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about a mile from town
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I picked a stick up off the ground
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and knocked that fat girl down
Verse 3
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She fell down on her bended knees,
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for mercy she did cry
"Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here,
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I'm not prepared to die"
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She never spoke an other word,
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I only beat her more
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Until the ground around
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me with her blood did flow
Verse 4
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I took her by her golden curls and drag
Throwing her into the river that
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flows through Knoxville town
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl,
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with the dark and rolling eyes
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl,
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you'll never be my bride
Verse 5
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I started back to Knoxville,
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got there about midnight
My mother, she was worried
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and woke up in a fright
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what have you done to bloody your clothes so?"
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I told my anxious mother,
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"I was bleeding at my nose"
Verse 6
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I called for me a candle
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to light myself to bed
I called for me a handkerchief
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to bind my aching head
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Rolled and tumbled the whole night
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through as troubles was for me
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Like flames of hell around my bed
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and in my eyes could see
Verse 7
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They carried me down to
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Knoxville and put me in a cell
My friends tried to get me out,
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but none could go my bail
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I'm here to waste my life away
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down in this dirty old jail
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Because I murdered that Knoxville girl,
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the girl I loved so well
Verse 8
Okay, I'll be on my shittiest joke
Was that enough sound?
(Yeah)
Okay, doing confidence of joke
Okay, ah
Verse 9
Doc walks in an ice cream store And
says, "Hey, man,
you got any nails?"
And the guy says, "No, we don't
have nails"
And the next day Doc walks in an ice cream
store and says
"Yeah, man"
No, Doc walks in and asks
Okay, Doc walks in (is that shitty?)
Okay, Doc walks in an ice cream store Says, "Hey, man, you got
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any nails?"
No, Doc walks in an ice cream
store
And says, "Hey,
man, you got any dog food?"
And the guy says,
"No, we don't have dog food"
And so Doc walks in the next day and
says
"Young man, you got any dog
food?"
And the guy says, "No,
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we don't have dog food"
And so the next day, Doc walks in says
"Hey, dog food?"
And the guy says, "No,
if you walk back in here and ask for dog food again
I'll nail your feet to the floor"
And so the next day, Doc
walks in and says
"Hey man,
you got any nails?"
And the guy says, "No"
He says, "Well, you got any
dog food?"
Jesus, stick to singing, boy
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