From: Ian Kramar (mkramar@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu)

"Knoxville Girl"


The strumming pattern is a pretty basic 3/4 (one, two and three and).

Have fun with it but don't sing it to your girlfriend.
Mine won't even listen to this track on the CD!

Ian Kramar




(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

     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)

   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...