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Knoxville Girl
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Nick Cave
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I met a little girl in Knoxville down beyond the well
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And every Sunday evenin' out in her home I dwelled
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We went to take an evenin' walk about a mile from town
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I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down
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She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry
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"Oh Willard dear don't kill me here I'm unprepared to die
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"She never spoke another word, I only beat her more
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Until the ground around me with it her blood did flow
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I took her by her golden curls and I drug her round and round
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Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town
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Go down go down you Knoxville girl with dark and rollin' eyes
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Go down go down you Knoxville girl you can never be my bride
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I started back to Knoxville got there about midnight
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My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright
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Saying "Dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so"
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I told my anxious mother I was bleeding at my nose
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I called for me a candle to light myself to bed
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I called for me a handkerchief to bind my aching head
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Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as troubles was for me
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Like flames of hell around my bed, and in my eyes could see
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They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell
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My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail
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I'm here to waste my life away downb in this dirty all jail
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Because I murdered that Knoxville girl, the girl I loved so well!
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