Frankie And Johnny' -Verse- Anonymous.

Frankie And Johnny' -Verse- Anonymous.
read by Marcus D'Amico

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Frankie and Johnnie were lovers,
O, my Gawd, how they could love,
swore to be true to each other,
True as the stars above; He was her man, but he done her wrong.
Frankie was his woman, everybody knows,
She spent a hundred dollars,fora suit of Johnnys clothes; He was her man, but he done her wrong.
Frankie and Johnnie went walking,
Johnnie in his bran' new suit,
"Oh, my Gawd," said Frankie,
"But don't my Johnnie look cute?" He was her man, but he done her wrong.
Frankie went down to Memphis,
she went on the evening train,
She paid one hundred dollars
for Johnnie a watch and chain; He was her man, but he done her wrong.
Frankie went down to the corner,
To buy a glass of beer,
She said,to the fat bar tender
Has my loving Johnnie been here? He is my man, and he's done me wrong."
'aint gonna tell you no story
aint gonna tell you no lie,
I seen your man about an hour ago
With a girl named Alice Bly;
If hes is your man, he's doing you wrong."
Frankie went to the hotel,
She didn't go there for fun,
'Cause underneath herlong red kimona
She toted that forty-four gun; He was her man, but he done her wrong.
Frankie went down to the hotel,
Looked in at a window so high,
There was her lovin Johnnie,
Loving up Alice Bly, He was her man, but he done her wrong.
Frankie went down to the hotel
She rang that hotel bell,
"Stand back, all you flousies,
Or I'll blow you all to hell; I want my man, who's done me wrong."
Frankie threw back her kimona,
Took out the old forty-four,
Roota-toot-toot, three times she shot,
Right through that hotel door; She shot her man cos he done her wrong.
Johnnie grabbed off his Stetson,
Said, "Oh, Gawd, Frankie, don't shoot!"
But she pressed hard on the trigger,
And the gun went roota-toot-toot; He was her man, but she shot him down
"Roll me over easy,
Oh, roll me over slow,
Roll me over easy boys,
'Cause my wounds are hurtin me so." I was her man, but I done her wrong.
With the first shot Johnny staggered,
with the second shot he fell.
When the third bullet hit him there was new mans face in Hell
He was her man,but he'd done her wrong.
Frankie heard a rumbling away down under the ground
Maybe it was Johnny where she had shot him down.
He was her man, and she'd done him wrong.
"Bring on your rubber-tyred hearses,
Bring on your rubber-tyred hacks,
They're taking my Johnny to the burying ground,
But they'll never bring him back He was my man, but he done me wrong."
The Judge he said to the jury,
Its plain as plain can be, this woman shot her man,
So its murder in the second degree
He was her man, though he done her wrong
Now it was'nt murder in the second degree,
It was'nt murder in the third,
Frankie simply drops her man like a hunter drops a bird
He was her man but he done her wrong.
Oh put me in that dungeon,put me in that cell
Put me where the North East wind blows
from the South East corner of Hell
I shot my man cos he done me wrong
Frankie walked upto the scaffold,
As calm as a girl could be.
She turned her eyes to heaven and said,
Good Lord I'm comin to thee He was my man, and I done him wrong


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[oceanbound222]

Great !

[Coppillie]

Hey, great stuff! This just about covers all the verses I've ever heard of this song (except where Johnny's mother comes to bury him and where they call out a thousand policeman) along with some I've never heard!

I have a version with new modern day lyrics - feel free to check it out (you may want to add my lyrics to your collection!)

[Bobby61557]

Elvis Presley movie is where I first heard this Donna Douglas was Frankie

[justizbk]

A really sad story.. the lexikon of it is that doing girls not wrong ..

[CSAWORDaudio]

Dans La Nuit (Lovers), 1935, bronze

[sananda]

Does anyone know the name of the statue? thanks