Vandaveer - The Knoxville Girl Lyrics
I met a little girl in Knoxville, a town we all know wellAnd every Sunday evening out in her home I'd dwellWe went to take an evening walk about a mile from townI picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down.She fell down on her bended knees, for mercy she did cry"Oh, Willie, Willie, don't kill me, I'm unprepared to die"She never spoke another word, I only beat her moreUntil the ground around me with her red blood did flow.I took her by her golden curls, I drug her round and roundThrow her into the river that flows through Knoxville townGo down, go down, you Knoxville girl with the dark and rolling eyesGo down, go down, you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.I started back to Knoxville, got there around midnightMy mother, she was worried and woke up in a frightSaying "Dear son, what have you done to bloody you clothing so?"And I told my anxious mother I was bleeding from my noseI called for me a candle to light myself to bedI called for me a handkerchief to bind my aching handI rolled and tumbled my whole night through, as troubles was for meLike flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see.They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cellMy friends all tried to get me out, but none could go my bailI'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jailBecause I murdered that Knoxville girl, the girl I love so well.
