Knoxville Girl-The Louvin Brothers

[ti:Knoxville Girl] [ar:The Louvin Brothers] [al:The Best of the Louvin Brothers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Knoxville Girl (Original Mix) - The Louvin Brothers [00:09.22]I met a liitle girl in Knoxville [00:12.58] [00:13.15]A town we all know well [00:16.01] [00:17.02]And every Sunday evening [00:20.31] [00:20.97]Out in her home I'd dwell [00:24.19] [00:25.22]We went to take an evening [00:28.40]Walk about a mile from town [00:31.77] [00:32.99]I picked a stick up off the ground [00:36.85]And knocked that fair girl down [00:39.80] [00:42.09]She fell down on her bended [00:45.07]Knees for mercy she did cry [00:49.14] [00:50.00]Oh Willy dear don't kill me here [00:53.58] [00:54.17]I'm unprepared to die [00:57.24] [00:58.13]She never spoke another word [01:02.03]I only beat her more [01:04.97] [01:06.11]Until the ground around me [01:10.07]Within her blood did flow [01:13.21] [01:23.24]I took her by her golden curls [01:26.63] [01:27.22]And I drug her round and around [01:30.05] [01:31.18]Throwing her into the river [01:34.65] [01:35.25]That flows through Knoxville town [01:37.99] [01:39.28]Go down go down you Knoxville [01:42.38]Girl with the dark and rolling eyes [01:45.82] [01:47.29]Go down go down you Knoxville girl [01:51.15]You can never be my bride [01:54.08] [01:56.31]I started back to Knoxville [02:00.19]Got there about midnight [02:03.24] [02:04.25]My Mother she was worried [02:07.64] [02:08.38]And woke up in a fright [02:11.66] [02:12.52]Saying "Dear son what have you done [02:16.25]To bloody your clothes so " [02:19.62] [02:20.48]I told my anxious Mother [02:23.53] [02:24.25]I was bleeding at my nose [02:27.48] [02:37.33]I called for me a candle [02:40.44] [02:41.40]To light myself to bed [02:44.35] [02:45.37]I called for me a hankerchief [02:49.23]To bind my aching head [02:52.43] [02:53.59]Rolled and tumbled the whole night throught [02:57.45]As troubles was for me [03:00.61] [03:01.36]Like flames of hell around my bed [03:05.45]And in my eyes could see [03:08.52] [03:10.57]They carried me down to Knoxville [03:14.05] [03:14.60]And put me in a cell [03:17.99] [03:18.52]My friends all tried to get me out [03:22.09] [03:22.75]But none could go my bail [03:25.96] [03:26.62]I'm here to waste my life away down [03:31.16]In this dirty old jail [03:33.96] [03:35.13]Because I murdered that Knoxville girl [03:38.63]The girl I loved so well