Chords for Scruffy City All-Stars "Knoxville Girl"

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How's everybody out there this evening?
Yeah!
_ Yeah! _
_ _ _ _ _ Well we're gonna do an old timey murder ballad right here.
Yeah! _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Ruth Collins said he wanted to do this number and I started singing it to my kids and I got about a verse [F] through and I said this right here is explicit.
_ _ Yeah!
Yeah!
[N] But _ we're gonna do it anyway.
I think most of the youngins have gone to bed now.
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_ _ _ [Ab] So, I'm going to plug in this guitar in the middle.
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_ _ _ _ How many of you have ever heard [Bm] of the Knoxville Girls?
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_ _ _ _ _ _ There's a few of them.
[B] Well we're glad we got fans out there.
Hopefully we'll do it like you want to hear it.
This was referred to [F] back in the old days as the Oxford tragedy.
Over in the old soul. _
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_ met a little girl in _ [Bb] Knoxville, a town we [F] all know well. _
And every Sunday evening [G]
out in her home [C] I'd dwell.
[F] We went to take an evening [Bb] walk about a mile [F] from town.
I _ picked a stick up off the ground [C] and knocked that [F] fair girl down.
_ She fell down on her bended knees [Bb] for mercy she [F] did cry.
_ Oh Willie dear don't kill me [G] here I'm _ unprepared to [C] die.
[F] She never spoke another word [Bb] I only [Fm] beat [F] her more.
_ Until the ground _ around [C] me within her [F] blood did flow.
_ _ I grabbed her by her golden curls [Bb] and swung [F] around and around.
I threw her into the river [G] that flows through [C] Knoxville town.
[F] Go down, go down you _ Knoxville girl [Bb] with your dark and [F] rolling eyes.
_ _ Go down, go down you Knoxville [C] girl you could never [F] be my bride. _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ I started back to _ _ [Bb] Knoxville got there [F] about midnight.
_ My mother she was _ weary [G] and woke up [C] in a cry.
[F] Saying son, oh son what have you [Bb] done to bloody up [F] your soul.
_ I told my anxious mother I've [C] been bleeding [F] at my door.
_ I called for me a candle [Bb] to light myself [F] to bed.
I called for me a handkerchief [G] to bind my [C] aching head.
[F] I rolled I tumbled a whole night through [Bb] for troubles [F] were before me.
_ Like flames of hell around my bed [C] and in my [F] eyes could see. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ They took me back to _ Knoxville [Bb] that knocked me [F] in the cell.
_ My friends all tried to get me out [G] but none could go [C] my [Ab] bail.
[F] I'm here to waste my life away [Bb] down in this dirty [F] old cell.
_ Because I murdered that _ Knoxville girl, [C] the girl I love [F] so well. _ _
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Thank you all that's Mr.
Todd [G] Gladson.
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