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Intro 1
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Verse 1
girl in Knoxville
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A town we all know well
And every Sunday evening
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Out in her home I'd dwell
Verse 2
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We went to take an evening walk
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About a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
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And knocked that fair 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 unprepared to die
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She never spoke another word
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I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
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Within her blood did flow
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I took her by her golden curls
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And I drug her 'round and 'round
Throwing her into the river
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That flows through Knoxville town
Verse 6
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
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With the dark and roving eyes
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
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You can never be my bride
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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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
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To bloody your clothes so?"
I told my anxious mother
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I was bleeding at my nose
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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 through
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As troubles was for me
Like flames of hell around my bed
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And in my eyes could see
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ried me down to Knoxville
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And put me in a cell
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My friends all 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
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl
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The girl I loved so well
Outro 1
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