LOUVIN BROTHERS - "knoxville girl" Tablature

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:44:02 -0600
Subject: i.e. CRD: Knoxville Girl by The Louvin Brothers


Knoxville Girl
By:
The Louvin Brothers
Justin Kruse
kruse@telepath.com

[E] [E7] [A] [E]
I met a little girl from Knoxville town we all know well
[E] [F#] [B]
And every Sunday evenin^Ò out in her home I dwelled
[E] [E7] [A] [E]
We went to take an evenin^Ò walk about a mile from town
[E] [B] [E]
I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down

[E] [E7] [A] [E]
She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry
[E] [F#] [B]
"Oh Willy dear don^Òt kill me yet I^Òm unprepared to die"
[E] [E7] [A] [E]
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more
[E] [B] [E]
Until the ground around me with it her blood did flow

[E] [E7] [A] [E]
I took her by her golden curls and drug her round and round
[E] [F#] [B]
Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town
[E] [E7] [A] [E]
Go down go down you Knoxville girl with dark and rollin^Ò eyes
[E] [B] [E]
Go down go down you Knoxville girl you can never be my bride

[E] [E7] [A] [E]
i started back to knoxville rigt there about midnight
[E] [F#] [B]
my mother she was worried and woke up in a fright
[E] [E7] [A] [E]
saying dear son what have you done to bloody you clothes so
[E] [B] [E]
i told my ancient mother i was bleeding from my nose

[E] [E7] [A] [E]
I called for me a candle to light myself to bed
[E] [F#] [B]
i called for a hankerchief to bind my aching head
[E] [E7] [A] [E]
rolled and tumbled the whole night through, though truble was for me
[E] [B] [E]
like flames of death around my head and then my eyes could see

[E] [E7] [A] [E]
They took me back to knoxville and put me in a cell
[E] [F#] [B]
my friends all tried to get me out but none could go the bail
[E] [E7] [A] [E]
I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail
[E] [B] [E]
cause I murdered that old knoxville girl the girl I loved so well