Knoxville Girl

Stonewall Jackson

Traditional

Key of D · Chords: I II IV V

Verse

  D
I met a little girl in Knoxville
  G                D
A town we all know well
    D
And every Sunday evening
    E               A7
Out in her home I’d dwell

Verse

   D
We went to take an evening walk
G                 D
About a mile from town
  D
I picked a stick up off the ground
    A7      A         D
And knocked that fair girl down

Verse

    D
She fell down on her bended knees
    G             D
For mercy she did cry
   D
Oh Willie Dear don’t kill me here
    E            A7
I’m not prepared to die

Verse

    D
She never spoke another word
  G             D
I only beat her more
D
Until the ground around me
     A7  A         D
With her blood did flow

Verse

  D
I took her by her golden curls
    G                 D
And dragged her round and round
D
Throwing her into the river
     E                       A7
That flows through Knoxville Town