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Current version of Nick Cave Lyrics Knoxville Girl (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/n/nick-cave/knoxville-girl/) Current version of the lyrics |
Version 1 of Nick Cave Lyrics Knoxville Girl (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/n/nick-cave/knoxville-girl/v1.html) Version 1 of the lyrics | |||||||||||
| I met a little girl in Knoxville | I met a little girl in Knoxville | |||||||||||
| A town we all know well | A town we all know well | |||||||||||
| And every sunday evening | And every sunday evening | |||||||||||
| In her home I'd dwell | In her home I'd dwell | |||||||||||
| We went to take an evening walk | We went to take an evening walk | |||||||||||
| About a mile from town | About a mile from town | |||||||||||
| I picked a stick up off the ground | I picked a stick up off the ground | |||||||||||
| And I knocked that fair girl down | And I knocked that fair girl down | |||||||||||
| She fell down on her bended knees | She fell down on her bended knees | |||||||||||
| For mercy she did cry | For mercy she did cry | |||||||||||
| 1 | "Oh Willy, dear, don't kill me here | "Oh Willy, dear, don't kill me yet | 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | I'm not prepared to die" | I'm unprepared to die" | 2 | |||||||||
| She never spoke another word | She never spoke another word | |||||||||||
| I only beat her more | I only beat her more | |||||||||||
| Until the ground around me | Until the ground around me | |||||||||||
| With her blood did flow | With her blood did flow | |||||||||||
| 3 | I picked her up by her golden hair | I took her by her golden curls | 3 | |||||||||
| And I dragged her 'round and 'round | And I dragged her 'round and 'round | |||||||||||
| 4 | I threw her in the river | Throwing her into the river | 4 | |||||||||
| That flows from Knoxville town | That flows from Knoxville town | |||||||||||
| Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl | Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl | |||||||||||
| With your dark and roving eyes | With your dark and roving eyes | |||||||||||
| Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl | Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl | |||||||||||
| You can never be my bride | You can never be my bride | |||||||||||
| I started back to Knoxville | I started back to Knoxville | |||||||||||
| Got there about midnight | Got there about midnight | |||||||||||
| My mother, she was worried | My mother, she was worried | |||||||||||
| She woke up in a fright | She woke up in a fright | |||||||||||
| 5 | Saying, "Son oh son, what have you done | Saying, "Dear son, what have you done | 5 | |||||||||
| To bloody up your clothes?" | To bloody up your clothes?" | |||||||||||
| I told my anxious mother | I told my anxious mother | |||||||||||
| 6 | Been bleeding at the nose | That I was bleading in my nose | 6 | |||||||||
| I called for me a candle | I called for me a candle | |||||||||||
| 7 | To light my way to bed | And I called for me a bed | 7 | |||||||||
| And I called for me a handkerchief | And I called for me a handkerchief | |||||||||||
| To bind my aching head | To bind my aching head | |||||||||||
| 8 | I rolled and tossed the | I rolled and thrashed the | 8 | |||||||||
| whole night through | whole night through | |||||||||||
| 9 | No mercy did I see | All horrors I did see | 9 | |||||||||
| 10 | The flames of Hell around my bed | The devil stood at the foot of my bed | 10 | |||||||||
| 11 | And in my eyes could see | Pointing his finger at me | 11 | |||||||||
| They carried me down to Knoxville | They carried me down to Knoxville | |||||||||||
| 12 | They threw me in a cell | And put me in a cell | 12 | |||||||||
| My friends all tried to get me out | My friends all tried to get me out | |||||||||||
| But none could grow my bail | But none could grow my bail | |||||||||||
| I'm here to waste my life away | I'm here to waste my life away | |||||||||||
| Down in this dirty old jail | Down in this dirty old jail | |||||||||||
| Because I murdered that Knoxville girl | Because I murdered that Knoxville girl | |||||||||||
| The girl I loved so well | The girl I loved so well | |||||||||||
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