Knoxville Girl

[ti:Knoxville Girl] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:The Best of Country Bluegrass, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.45]Knoxville Girl - The Hit Crew [00:03.55] [00:08.69]I met a little girl in Knoxville [00:11.95] [00:12.76]A town we all know well [00:16.13] [00:17.15]And every sunday evening [00:20.30] [00:21.82]In her home I'd dwell [00:24.65] [00:25.51]We went to take an evening walk [00:29.73]About a mile from town [00:32.83] [00:33.86]I picked a stick up off the ground [00:37.92]And I knocked that fair girl down [00:41.35] [00:42.16]She fell down on her bended knees [00:46.45]For mercy she did cry [00:49.19] [00:50.55]"Oh Willy dear don't kill me yet [00:54.84]I'm unprepared to die" [00:58.19] [00:59.07]She never spoke another word [01:03.32]I only beat her more [01:06.62] [01:07.56]Until the ground around me [01:11.81]With her blood did flow [01:15.09] [01:24.48]I took her by her golden curls [01:28.31]And I dragged her 'round and 'round [01:31.75] [01:33.15]Throwing her into the river [01:36.85]That flows from Knoxville town [01:40.21] [01:41.19]Go down go down you Knoxville girl [01:45.19]With your dark and roving eyes [01:48.66] [01:49.56]Go down go down you Knoxville girl [01:53.58]You can never be my bride [01:58.12]They carried me down to Knoxville [02:02.16]And put me in a cell [02:05.56] [02:06.39]My friends all tried to get me out [02:10.43]But none could grow my bail [02:14.75]I'm here to waste my life away [02:18.82]Down in this dirty old jail [02:22.02] [02:23.21]Because I murdered that Knoxville girl [02:27.59]Girl I loved so well