Knoxville Girl- Reva Osborne (KY) 1937 Lomax REC

Knoxville Girl- Reva Osborne (KY) 1937 Lomax REC


[AFC recording 1937001 1395A by Alan Lomax. From Kentucky Alan Lomax Recordings, 1937-1942. Several versions from Tennessee name Boston as the city he used to live and dwell (see: Henry).

Listen: https://archive.org/details/afc1937001_1422B1

R. Matteson 2016]


The Knoxville Girl- sung by Reva Osborne of Middle Fork, Kentucky in September 1937.

I met a girl in Knoxville
Where I used to live and dwell
And in that town of Knoxville
I owned a floury mill.

I fell in love with a Knoxville girl
With a dark and rolling eye,
I promised I

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