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Thread #28033   Message #748260
Posted By: masato sakurai
15-Jul-02 - 09:37 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Knoxville Girl
Subject: Lyr Add: KNOXVILLE GIRL (from Blue Sky Boys)
The Blue Sky Boys version (in The New Lost City Ramblers Song Book, Oak, p. 167) has this stanza:

I taken her by her golden curls,
I drug her 'round and 'round,
Throwing her into the river
That flows through Knoxville town;
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl,
Got dark and rolling eyes,
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl,
You can never by[sic] my bride.

~Masato