Knoxville Courthouse Blues

I'm sittin' in Knoxville Courthouse

Ain't got a thing to do

I don't wanna go to the movies

Couldn't if I wanted to, I'm on trial for lovin' you

Now this all started in a honky tonk

Just the other side of town

A girl come in took a stool by me

Ordered gin and drank it down

She lit up a cigarette and turned around

Well, she said my name is Jeannie

And asked me what was mine

I answered Hank and I walked

To the jukebox droppin' a dime

I looked at her short dress low neck line

Well, we danced for five or ten minutes

And I held her close to me

Kissed her lips and squeezed her hips

And judged about twenty-three

Whispered in my ears, I said, "Yes siree"

Now the scene is a little motel

Out on the state highway

And there's a room for two

Love is about to take place

And a state trooper breaks down the door

Shines a flash light in my face

I said, "What the hell is this"

And another man and woman come in

And the girl I'm with starts cryin' and screamin'

And she runs over to them

Said, "Thank God you're here

He tried to hurt me mama"

I said now you don't mean

The cop says, "Son the girl is seventeen"

So that's why I'm in Knoxville courthouse

And the judge passed sentence on me

And it's ten long years for statutory rape

In the state penitentiary

Lord, I can't believe this is happened to me

So when next time you give a girl the eye

She gives you that certain smile

Just remember under that woman's breast

May beat the heart of a child

Don't you let yourself be the one

To help a mixed up kids go wild

This story happened a lot that's true

But you better hope and pray it never happens to you