[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