Chords for knoxville girl

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_ _ _ _ I met a little girl in [Bb] Knoxville, a town [F] we all know well.
Every Sunday evening, [G] out in her [C] home I dwell.
[F] Went to take an evening [Fm] walk, [Bb] about a mile from [F] town.
I picked a stick up off the ground [C] and I knocked that fair [F] girl down.
_ She fell down on her bended [Bb] knees, in mercy [F] she did cry.
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me [G] yet, I'm [C] unprepared to die.
[F] She never spoke another word, [Bb] I only [Fm] beat her [F] more.
Until the ground around [C] me, with her [F] blood did flow.
_ I took her by her golden [Bb] curls and I drug [F] her round and round.
Throwing her into the river, [Eb] flows from [C] Knoxville town.
[F] Go down, go down, you Knoxville [Bb] girl, with your dark [F] unroving eyes.
Go down, go down, you Knoxville [C] girl, you can never [F] be my bride. _ _ _ _
[C] _ [F] _ _ _ I started back to Knoxville, [Bb] got there about [F] midnight.
Oh, mother, she was worried, [Eb] I woke [Fm] up in a [C] fright.
[Fm] [F] Saying, dear son, what have you done [Bb] to bloody up your [F] clothes?
I told my anxious mother, [Fm] I [C] was [Fm] bleeding and [F] I know.
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_ [F] _ _ _ I called for me a candle, and [Bb] I called [Fm] for me a [F] bed.
And I called for me a [G] handkerchief to bind my [C] aching [Fm] head.
[F] I rolled and thrashed the whole [Ab] night through, [Bb] all horrors [F] I did see.
The devil stood at the foot of my bed, [C]
[F] when his finger hit me.
He _ _ carried me down to [Bb] Knoxville and put me [F] in a cell.
My friends all tried to get me [G] out, but none could go [C] my [F] bail.
I'm here to waste my life and [Bb] wait down in this [F] dirty old jail.
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl, [C] girl I [E] loved [F] so well.
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