[ti:Frankie and Johnnie]
[ar:Jimmie Rodgers]
[al:Jimmie Rodgers Selected Favorites Volume 2]
[by:]
[00:01.43]Frankie And Johnnie - Jimmie Rodgers
[00:06.26]Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
[00:09.33]Oh Lord how they did love
[00:12.13]Swore to be true to each other
[00:15.07]True as the stars above He was her man
[00:19.40]He wouldn't do her wrong
[00:23.73]Frankie went down to the corner
[00:26.67]Just for a bucket of beer
[00:29.24]She said Mister Bartender
[00:31.94]Has my loving Johnny been here
[00:34.57]He's my man he wouldn't do me wrong
[00:40.52]I don't want to cause you no trouble
[00:43.86]I ain't gonna tell you no lie
[00:46.65]I saw your lover an hour ago
[00:49.20]With a girl named Nellie Bly
[00:51.41]He was your man but he's doing you wrong
[00:58.19]Frankie looked over the transom She saw to her surprise
[01:03.94]There on a cot sat Johnny
[01:06.31]****** **** to Nellie Bly
[01:08.68]He is my man and hes doing me wrong
[01:17.55]Frankie drew back her kimona
[01:20.12]She took out a little fortyfour
[01:23.19]Roottotoot three times she shoot
[01:25.89]Right thru that hardwood door
[01:28.11]Shot her man he was doing her wrong
[01:34.58]Bring out the rubbertired bucket
[01:37.72]Bring out the rubbertired hack
[01:40.20]I'm taking my man to the graveyard
[01:43.19]But I ain't gonna bring him back Lord
[01:45.33]He was my man and he done me wrong
[01:57.64]Bring out a thousand policemen
[02:00.51]Bring em around today
[02:03.28]To lock me down in the dungeon cell
[02:05.84]And throw that key away I shot my man
[02:10.75]He was doing me wrong
[02:14.84]Frankie said to the warden
[02:17.79]What are they going to do
[02:20.59]The warden he said to Frankie
[02:23.23]It's the electric chair for you
[02:25.28]Cause you shot your man
[02:27.91]He was doing you wrong
[02:31.93]This story has no moral
[02:35.04]This story has no end
[02:37.92]This story just goes to show
[02:40.33]That there ain't no good in men
[02:42.91]He was her man
[02:44.87]And he done her wrong