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Knoxville Girl
Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys
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I met a girl in Knoxville, a girl you all know well
And every Sunday evening, out in her home I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk 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
Saying, "Pity Jim, don't kill me yet, I'm not prepared to die"
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more
Until the ground around us within her blood did flow
I took her hair, her golden curls, I swung her 'round and 'round
I threw her in the river that flows through Knoxville town
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl
With your dark and your roving eye
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl, you'll never be my wife
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I started back to Knoxville 'bout there about midnight
My mother, she was worried and woke up in a fright
Said, "Son, oh son, what have you done to bloody your bosom?"
I told my anxious mother that bleeding had begun
I called for me a candle to light myself till then
I asked for a green bandage to bind my aching head
I rolled and covered the hole I proved the trouble was for me
I clamped a pillow around my back, within my eyes could see
They took me down to Knoxville, they locked me up in jail
My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail
So now I'm wasting my life away down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl, the girl I loved so well
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