I met a little girl in Knoxville 我诺克斯维尔遇到了一个小女孩

A town we all know well 一个城镇，我们都知道好

And every sunday evening 而每周日晚上

In her home I'd dwell 在她家里，我想住

We went to take an evening walk 我们去把一个晚上散步

About a mile from town 大约从镇一英里

I picked a stick up off the ground 我拿起棍子掉在地上

And I knocked that fair girl down 我敲了公平姑娘，

She fell down on her bended knees 她在她的膝盖弯曲倒下

For mercy she did cry 怜悯她没有哭

"Oh Willy, dear, don't kill me yet “哦，威利，亲爱的，不要杀我呢

I'm unprepared to die" 我没有准备去死“

She never spoke another word 她从来不说一个字

I only beat her more 我只打了她更多

Until the ground around me 直到我周围的地面

With her blood did flow 用她的血也流

I took her by her golden curls 我把她用她的金色卷发

And I dragged her 'round and 'round 我拖着她的“团团”轮

Throwing her into the river 她投掷入河

That flows from Knoxville town 从诺克斯维尔镇流

Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl 往下走，往下走，你诺克斯维尔的女孩

With your dark and roving eyes 有了您的黑暗和粗纱的眼睛

Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl 往下走，往下走，你诺克斯维尔的女孩

You can never be my bride 你永远是我的新娘

I started back to Knoxville 我开始回到诺克斯维尔

Got there about midnight 到了那里大约午夜时分，

My mother, she was worried 我的母亲，她很担心

She woke up in a fright 她被吓得醒了

Saying, "Dear son, what have you done 他说：“亲爱的儿子，你做了什么

To bloody up your clothes?" 血腥了你的衣服？ “

I told my anxious mother 我跟我妈急了

That I was bleading in my nose 我是bleading在我的鼻子

I called for me a candle 我打电话给我一支蜡烛

And I called for me a bed 我打电话给我一张床

And I called for me a handkerchief 我打电话给我一条手帕

To bind my aching head 要绑定我的头有点痛

I rolled and thrashed the whole night through 我滚，并通过痛打了整整一夜

All horrors I did see 所有的惨状我没有看到

The devil stood at the foot of my bed 魔鬼站在我的床尾

Pointing his finger at me 指着他的手指在我

They carried me down to Knoxville 他们把我下到诺克斯维尔

And put me in a cell 并让我在一个单元格

My friends all tried to get me out 我的朋友们都试图让我出去

But none could grow my bail 但是没有人能增长我的保释

I'm here to waste my life away 我在这里浪费我的生命

Down in this dirty old jail 倒在这肮脏的老监狱

Because I murdered that Knoxville girl 因为我谋杀了诺克斯维尔的女孩

The girl I loved so well 这个女孩我喜欢这么好