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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Knoxville Girl&#039;&#039;&#039;, American version of <a href="/wiki/Roud_263" title="Roud 263">Roud 263</a>. Earliest known commercial recording was by <a href="/index.php?title=Arthur_Tanner&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Tanner (page does not exist)">Arthur Tanner</a> &amp; His Corn Shuckers in 1925. The song in its twentieth century Americ...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Knoxville Girl&#039;&#039;&#039;, American version of [[Roud 263]].<br /> <br /> Earliest known commercial recording was by [[Arthur Tanner]] &amp; His Corn Shuckers in 1925.<br /> <br /> The song in its twentieth century American form appears to relate the story of the murder of Mary Lula Noel, from Pineville, Missouri, by one William Simmons in 1892, but is based on older ballads and older events. &lt;br /&gt;<br /> See [http://www.planetslade.com/knoxville-girl1.html Paul Slade, &#039;&#039;Unprepared to die: Knoxville Girl&#039;&#039;] which looks at the historical background to the song, tracing its origins in English ballads such as [[Bloody Miller, The|The Bloody Miller]] and [[Berkshire Tragedy, The|The Berkshire Tragedy]].<br /> <br /> [[Category: Song]]</div>

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