Lemonheads Lyrics

Album: Car Button Cloth

Knoxville Girl Lyrics

(verse 1)

 D

I met a little girl in Knoxville

 G D

A town we all know well

 D

And every Sunday evening

 G A 

Out in her home I'd dwell

 D

We decided to take an evening walk

 

 G D

About a mile from town

 D 

I picked a stick up off the ground

 G D

And beat that fair girl down


(Right here you go nuts all over the d chord for two bars)


(verse 2)

 D G D

She fell down on her bended knee for mercy she did cry

 D G A

"Oh Willy dear, don't kill me here, I'm unprepared to die."

 D G D

She never spoke another word, I only beat her more.

 D G D

Until the ground around us, with all her blood did pour.

(Nuts on the D)


(verse 3)

 D G D

I took her by her golden curls and drug her round and round,

 D G A

throwing(ed) her into the river that flows through Knoxville town.

 D G D

Go down, go down you Knoxville girl with dark and rolling eye.

 D G D

Go down, go down you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.

 D


(verse 4)

 D G D

I headed back to Knoxville, got there about midnight.

 D G A

My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright.

 D G D

Saying, "dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so?"

 D G D

I told my anxious mother I was bleeding out my nose.

 D


(verse 5)

 D G D

I called for me a candle to light myself to bed.

 D G A

I called for me a hankercheif to bind my aching head

 D G D

Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as troubles was for me

 D G D

Like flames of Hell around my bed and in my eyes could see

 D


(verse 6)

 D G D 

They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell

 D G A

My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail

 D G D 

I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail.

 D 

Because I murdered that Knoxville girl,

 G(once)

The girl I loved so

 D(once) 

well...