[00:09.07]I met a little girl in Knoxville[00:13.04]A town we all know well[00:17.01]And every Sunday evening[00:21.01]Out in her home I'd dwell[00:25.02]We went to take an evening walk[00:28.96]About a mile from town[00:32.92]I picked a stick up off the ground[00:36.84]And knocked that fair girl down[00:41.86]She fell down on her bended knees[00:45.85]For mercy she did cry[00:49.83]Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here[00:53.87]I'm unprepared to die[00:57.92]She never spoke another word[01:01.82]I only beat her more[01:05.87]Until the ground around me[01:09.82]Within her blood did flow[01:23.28]I took her by her golden curls[01:27.08]And I drug her 'round and 'round[01:31.48]Throwing her into the river[01:35.10]That flows through Knoxville town[01:39.24]Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl[01:43.14]With the dark and rolling eyes[01:47.38]Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl[01:51.24]You can never be my bride[01:56.35]I started back to Knoxville[02:00.26]Got there about midnight[02:04.30]My mother she was worried[02:08.19]And woke up in a fright[02:12.55]Saying, "Dear son, what have you done[02:16.25]To bloody your clothes so?"[02:20.25]I told my anxious mother[02:24.10]I was bleeding at my nose[02:37.45]I called for me a candle[02:41.30]To light myself to bed[02:45.33]I called for me a handkerchief[02:49.27]To bind my aching head[02:53.67]Rolled and tumbled the whole night through[02:57.43]As troubles was for me[03:01.38]Like flames of hell around my bed[03:05.43]And in my eyes could see[03:10.50]They carried me down to Knoxville[03:14.35]And put me in a cell[03:18.49]My friends all tried to get me out[03:22.44]But none could go my bail[03:26.57]I'm here to waste my life away[03:30.51]Down in this dirty old jail[03:34.51]Because I murdered that Knoxville girl[03:38.60]The girl I loved so well