Okkervil River - Knoxville Girl lyrics
[Okkervil River - Knoxville Girl lyrics]
I meet a little girl in Knoxville
A town we all know well
And every Sunday evening within her
Hole I'd dwell
I took her for an evening walk about
A half a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
And knocked that fair girl down
She feel down on her bended knee
For mercy she did cry
"Oh Willie, dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die"
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Untill the ground around her wet
Her blood did flow
I took her by her golden curls
I swung her 'round and 'round
A threw her in the river
That runs through Knoxville Town
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl
With your dark and roaming eye
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl
You're never gonna be my bride
Well I started out walking home
Got there about midnight
My mother, she was worried
She woke up in a fright she said, "my son
What have you done to bloody your clothes?"
I told my anxious mother I'd
Been bleeding at my nose
They took me down to Knoxville
They locked me in a cell
I said my friends to get me out
But none would go my bail
So now I'm down in Knoxville
I am locked in this dirty old cell
But they can only kill me
I don't believe in hell
A town we all know well
And every Sunday evening within her
Hole I'd dwell
I took her for an evening walk about
A half a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
And knocked that fair girl down
She feel down on her bended knee
For mercy she did cry
"Oh Willie, dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die"
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Untill the ground around her wet
Her blood did flow
I took her by her golden curls
I swung her 'round and 'round
A threw her in the river
That runs through Knoxville Town
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl
With your dark and roaming eye
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl
You're never gonna be my bride
Well I started out walking home
Got there about midnight
My mother, she was worried
She woke up in a fright she said, "my son
What have you done to bloody your clothes?"
I told my anxious mother I'd
Been bleeding at my nose
They took me down to Knoxville
They locked me in a cell
I said my friends to get me out
But none would go my bail
So now I'm down in Knoxville
I am locked in this dirty old cell
But they can only kill me
I don't believe in hell