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Knoxville Girl

Br5-49
Version1
90

Chords in this song

Strum
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  )  alternate bass notes in style of
   Country Waltz
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I  met a little girl from Knoxville  down beyond  the well
And  every Sunday evenin?  inside her home  I dwelled
 We went  to take an evenin? stroll  about a mile  from town
I  picked a stick up off the ground and  knocked that fair girl  down
 She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry
 "Oh Willard dear don?t kill me here I?m unprepared to die"
 She never spoke another word, I only beat her more
 Until the ground around me with it her blood did flow
 I grabbed her by her golden curls and drug her round and round
 Throwing her into the river that runs through Knoxville town
 Go there go there you Knoxville girl with dark and rollin? eyes
 Go there go there you Knoxville girl you can never be my bride
 I rolled and tumbled the whole night through, my dreams were livin? Hell
 And then they came from Knoxville to carry me to jail
 I?m here to waste my life away down in this dirty old cell
 Because I killed that Knoxville girl, that girl I loved so well!

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Readable chord sheet for Knoxville Girl by Br5-49

[E]
 [E7]
 [A]
 [F#]
 [B]) alternate bass notes in style of
 [A] Country Waltz

 [E]=(
 [E]&
 [B]);
 [A]=(
 [A]&
 [E]);
 [F#]=(
 [F#]&
 [C#]);
 [B]=(
 [B]&
 [F#])

[E]I met a little girl from [E7]Knoxvi[A]lle down beyon[E]d the well
[E]And every Sunday evenin[F#]? inside her home[B] I dwelled
We [E]went to take an evenin? [E7]strol[A]l about a mile[E] from town
[E]I picked a stick up off the ground an[B]d knocked that fair g[E]irl down

She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry
"Oh Willard dear don?t kill me here I?m unprepared to die"
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more
Until the ground around me with it her blood did flow

I grabbed her by her golden curls and drug her round and round
Throwing her into the river that runs through Knoxville town
Go there go there you Knoxville girl with dark and rollin? eyes
Go there go there you Knoxville girl you can never be my bride

I rolled and tumbled the whole night through, my dreams were livin? Hell
And then they came from Knoxville to carry me to jail
I?m here to waste my life away down in this dirty old cell
Because I killed that Knoxville girl, that girl I loved so well!