Knoxville Girl Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

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♯)

EI met a little girl from E7KnoxviAlle down beyonEd the well

EAnd every Sunday eveninF♯? inside her homeB I dwelled

 We Ewent to take an evenin? E7strolAl about a mileE from town

EI picked a stick up off the ground anBd knocked that fair gEirl 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!