Knoxville Girl Lyrics
I met a little girl in Knoxville
A town we all know well
And every sunday evening
In her home I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk
About a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
And I knocked that fair girl down
She fell down on her bended knees
For mercy she did cry
"Oh Willy, dear, don't kill me here
I'm not prepared to die"
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
With her blood did flow
I picked her up by her golden hair
And I dragged her 'round and 'round
I threw her in the river
That flows from Knoxville town
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
With your dark and roving eyes
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
You can never be my bride
I started back to Knoxville
Got there about midnight
My mother, she was worried
She woke up in a fright
Saying, "Son oh son, what have you done
To bloody up your clothes?"
I told my anxious mother
Been bleeding at the nose
I called for me a candle
To light my way to bed
And I called for me a handkerchief
To bind my aching head
I rolled and tossed the
whole night through
No mercy did I see
The flames of Hell around my bed
And in my eyes could see
They carried me down to Knoxville
They threw me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out
But none could grow my bail
I'm here to waste my life away
Down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl
The girl I loved so well
