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Knoxville Girl
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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I met a little girl in Knoxville
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A town we all know well
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And every Sunday evening
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In her home I'd dwell
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We went to take an evening walk
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About a mile from town
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I picked a stick up off the ground
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And I knocked that fair girl down
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She fell down on her bended knees
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For mercy she did cry
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"Oh willy, dear, don't kill me yet
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I'm unprepared to die"
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She never spoke another word
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I only beat her more
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Until the ground around me
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With her blood did flow
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I took her by her golden curls
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And I dragged her 'round and 'round
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Throwing her into the river
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That flows from Knoxville town
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
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With your dark and roving eyes
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Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
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You can never be my bride
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I started back to Knoxville
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Got there about midnight
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My mother, she was worried
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She woke up in a fright
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Saying, "dear son, what have you done
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To bloody up your clothes?"
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I told my anxious mother
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That I was bleeding in my nose
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I called for me a candle
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And I called for me a bed
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And I called for me a handkerchief
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To bind my aching head
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I rolled and thrashed the whole night through
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All horrors I did see
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The devil stood at the foot of my bed
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Pointing his finger at me
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They carried me down to Knoxville
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And put me in a cell
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My friends all tried to get me out
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But none could grow my bail
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I'm here to waste my life away
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Down in this dirty old jail
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Because I murdered that Knoxville girl
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The girl I loved so well
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