Chords for The Wilburn Brothers ~ The Knoxville Girl (1967) [LIVE]

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_ _ _ _ We've asked Herman Crook to help us out on this number.
This is a song that we
had the opportunity to record about seven or eight years ago and it's one of
our most requested songs today.
Hope all of you will enjoy the Knoxville Girl.
I [B] met a [E] little girl in _ Knoxville, a [A] town we [E] all know.
_ _ Every Sunday evening [F#] out in her home [B] I dwell.
[E] We went to take an evening walk [A] about a [E] mountain town.
I picked a stick up off the [B] ground and knocked that [E] fair girl down.
She knelt down on her bended knees [A] for mercy she did [E] cry.
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me [F] here, [F#] I'm not prepared [B] to die.
[E] She never spoke another word, [A] I only beat [E] her more.
Until the ground around me [B]
within her blood [E] did flow. _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ I took her by her golden curls, [A] I dragged her round [E] and around.
And threw her in the river [F#] that flows through [B] Knoxville town.
[E] Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl [A] with dark and rolling [E] _ eyes.
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl, you [B] can never be [E] my wife. _
I couldn't tumble the whole night through, [A] my dreams were [E] living hell.
And then they came from [F#] Knoxville and carried [B] me to jail.
[E] I'm good to waste my life away [A] and time is [E] passing slow.
Because I killed that Knoxville girl, [B] the girl that I [E] loved so. _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ I couldn't tumble the whole night [A] through, my dreams were [E] living hell.
And then they came from Knoxville [F#] and carried me [B] to jail.
[E] I'm good to waste my life away [A] and time is [E] passing slow.
Because I killed that Knoxville girl, [B] the girl that I [E] loved so. _ _ _ _
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