Knoxville Girl Chords by Roger Alan Wade

Can you hear us?
No, we're creating art here.
Oh.
_ Let me wash my brushes out.
Alright.
_ I met a girl in Knoxville, a town we all [G] know well.
_ Every Sunday evening, [Am] out in her home [D] I'd play.
[G] We went to take an evening walk [C] about a [G] mile from town.
[C] I picked a stick [G] up off the [D] ground and knocked that [G] black girl down.
She fell down on her bended knee.
[C] For mercy she [G] did cry.
Oh, well it did.
Don't kill me here.
[Am] I'm not [D] prepared to die.
[G] She never spoke another word.
[C] I only beat [G] her more.
_ [C] Until the ground [G] around me [D] with her blood [G] did flow.
I took her by her golden curls, [C] dragged her [G] round and round.
_ Loaded her in the river [A] that flows to [D] Knoxville town.
[G] Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl, [C] with dark and [G] rolling eyes.
[C] Go down, go down, [G] you Knoxville girl, [D] you never leave [G] my grind.
I started back to Knoxville, [C] got there about [G] midnight. _
My mother, she was worried, [Am] she woke up [D] in a frize.
_ [G] Saying, dear son, what have you done [C] to bloody your [G] clothes?
So I [C] told my anxious [G]
mother, [D] I split and left [G] the nose.
I called for me a candle [C] to light myself [G] to bed.
I called for me a handkerchief [A] to bind my [D] aching head.
_ [G] Lord, they tumbled home, I threw [C] what as tough as was [G] for me.
[C] Like flames of hell [G] around my bed [D] and in my [G] eyes could see.
They carried me down to Knoxville, [C] they put me [G] in a cell.
My friends tried to get me out, [Am] but none could [D] go my bail.
[G] I'm going to waste my vile way [C] down in this [G] dirty old jail.
_ [C] Because I'm a [G] _
Knoxville girl, [D] the girl I love [G] so well.
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_ _ _ _ Okay, I really want to share this joke.
_ Was that enough sound?
Okay, let me kind of finish the joke.
Okay.
[Db] _ _ _ _ Duck walks in an ice cream store and says,
Hey man, [Eb] you got [A] any [E] nails?
And [N] the guy says, no, we don't have nails. _ _
And the next day the duck walks in an ice cream store and says,
_ Yeah man. _ _
No, duck walks in an ice cream store. _ _ _
Okay, duck walks in. _ _ _
_ _ Is that a chicken? _
Okay, duck walks in an [G] ice cream store and says,
Hey man, you got any [D] nails?
No, the duck walks in an ice cream store and says,
Hey man, you got any duck food?
And the guy says, no, we don't have duck [Bb] food.
_ And so the duck walks in the next day and [Db] says,
Yeah man, _ you got any duck [Gb] food?
And the guy says, no, we don't have duck food.
[E] And so the next day the duck walks in and says,
[Gb] _
Hey, you got any duck [Eb] food?
And the guy says, no, if you walk back in here and ask [E] for duck food again,
I'll nail your feet to the floor.
And so the next [D] day the duck walks in and says,
Hey man, [Ab] you got any nails?
And the guy says, [Eb] no.
He says, well, you got any [C] duck food? _
Jesus.
Stick your singing voice.
[Bb] _ _ _