Knoxville Girl

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I met a little girl in Knoxville a
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 town we all know well
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And every Sunday evening out in her
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 home I dwelled
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I took her for an evening walk a 
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bout a mile from town
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
"Oh Willy dear don?t kill me here 
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I?m unprepared to die"
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She never spoke another word, I 
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only beat her more
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Until the ground around her with it
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 her blood did flow

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I took her by her golden curls and 
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swung her round and round
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I threw her in the river that flows
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 through Knoxville town
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Go there go there you Knoxville 
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girl with the dark and roving eyes
Go there go there you Knoxville girl
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 you can never be my bride

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I started back to Knoxville got 
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there about mid night
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My mother dear was worried and woke
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 up in a fright
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She said oh son what have you done
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 to bloody you clothes so
I told my ancient mother I?d been 
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bleeding at my nose

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I called for me a candle to light 
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myself to bed
I called for me a hankerchief to 
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bind my aching head
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I rolled and tumbled the whole 
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night through, not a wink that 
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night did sleep
While the flames of hell around my 
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bed with- in my eyes could see

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They took me down to Knoxville they
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 locked me in the cell
My friends all tried to get me out 
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but none could go my bail
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So now I?m wasting my life away 
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down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville 
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girl the girl I loved so well