Knoxville Girl Lyrics - Singles - Lemonheads

(verse 1) 

D 

I met a little girl in Knoxville 

G D 

A town we all know well 

D 

And every Sunday evening 

G A 

Out in her home I'd dwell 

D 

We decided to take an evening walk 

G D 

About a mile from town 

D 

I picked a stick up off the ground 

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G D 

And beat that fair girl down 

(Right here you go nuts all over the d chord for two bars) 

(verse 2) 

D G D 

She fell down on her bended knee for mercy she did cry 

D G A 

"Oh Willy dear, don't kill me here, I'm unprepared to die." 

D G D 

She never spoke another word, I only beat her more. 

D G D 

Until the ground around us, with all her blood did pour. 

(Nuts on the D) 

(verse 3) 

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D G D 

I took her by her golden curls and drug her round and round, 

D G A 

throwing(ed) her into the river that flows through Knoxville town. 

D G D 

Go down, go down you Knoxville girl with dark and rolling eye. 

D G D 

Go down, go down you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride. 

D 

(verse 4) 

D G D 

I headed back to Knoxville, got there about midnight. 

D G A 

My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright. 

D G D 

Saying, "dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so?" 

D G D 

I told my anxious mother I was bleeding out my nose. 

D 

(verse 5) 

D G D 

I called for me a candle to light myself to bed. 

D G A 

I called for me a hankercheif to bind my aching head 

D G D 

Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as troubles was for me 

D G D 

Like flames of Hell around my bed and in my eyes could see 

D 

(verse 6) 

D G D 

They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell 

D G A 

My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail 

D G D 

I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail. 

D 

Because I murdered that Knoxville girl, 

G(once) 

The girl I loved so 

D(once) 

well...