Timing - 3/4      Capo - 3rd Fret

[Intro] 

  
I met a little

 girl in Knoxv

ille
             
A town we all 

     
know well
    
And every Sund

ay evening
             
Out in her hom

      
e I'd dwell
   
We went to tak

e an evening w

alk
             
About a mile f

    
rom town
  
I picked a sti

ck up off the 

ground
            
And knocked th

         
at fair girl d

own

    
She fell down 

on her bended 

knee
             
For mercy she 

     
did cry
    
"Oh Willy dear

, don't kill m

e here,
             
I'm unprepared

    
 to die."
    
She never spok

e another word

,
             
I only beat he

  
r more.
  
Until the grou

nd around me,
           
With all her b

          
lood did pour.

  
I took her by 

her golden cur

ls
             
And drug her r

         
ound and round

,

Throwing her i

nto the river
             
That flows thr

              
ough Knoxville

 
 town
   
Go down, go do

wn you Knoxvil

le girl
             
With the dark 

      
and roving eye

s
   
Go down, go do

wn you Knoxvil

le girl,
            
You can never 

     
be my bride

  
I started back

 to Knoxville,
             
Got there abou

     
t 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 anxi

ous mother
           
I was bleeding

       
 at my nose

  
I called for m

e a candle
             
To light mysel

  
f to bed
  
I called for m

e a hankerchei

f
             
To bind my ach

 
ing head

Rolled and tum

bled the whole

 night through
             
As troubles wa

   
s for me

Like flames of

 Hell around m

y bed
           
And in my eyes

    
 could see

       
They carried m

e down to Knox

ville
           
And put me in 

a cell
     
My friends all

 tried to get 

me out
             
But none could

   
 go my bail
    
I'm here to wa

ste my life aw

ay
             
Down in this d

    
irty old jail.
  
Because I murd

ered that Knox

ville girl,
            
The girl I lov

         
ed so... Well.

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