Knoxville Girl (Smothered and Covered 2002)

Текст песни The Handsome Family - Knoxville Girl (Smothered and Covered 2002)

I met a little girl in Knoxville
A town we all know well
And every Sunday evening
Out in her home I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk
About a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
And knocked that fair girl down
She fell down on her bended knee
For mercy she did cry
Saying, "Willard, dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die"
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around her
Her head, her blood did pour
I took her by her golden curls
And I drug her round and round
Throwing her into the river
That runs through Knoxville town
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
With the dark and rolling eye
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
You can never be my bride
I started back to Knoxville
Got there about midnight
My mother, she was worried
And woke up in a fright
Saying, "Dear son, what have you done
To bloody your clothes so?"
I told my anxious mother
I was bleeding at my nose
I called for me a candle
To light my way to bed
I called for me a handkerchief
To bind my aching head
Rolled and tumbled the whole night through
Such troubles were for me
And flames of hell around my bed
Were all that I could see
They took me down to Knoxville
And put me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out
But none could gong my bell
I'm here to waste my life away
Down here in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl
The girl I loved so well