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I met a little girl in Knoxville |
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A town we all know well |
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And 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 fair girl down |
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She fell down on her bended knees |
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For mercy she did cry |
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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 |
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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 |
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Throwing her into the river |
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That 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 can never be my bride |
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I started back to Knoxville |
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Got there about midnight |
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My mother she was worried |
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And woke up in a fright |
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Saying, "Dear son, what have you done |
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To bloody your clothes so?" |
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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 |
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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 |
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Like flames of hell around my bed |
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And in my eyes could see |
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They carried 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 |
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Because I murdered that Knoxville girl |
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The girl I loved so well |
