Lemonheads: Knoxville Girl

(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...