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Frankie & Johnny
Traditional
Stompin' Dave version (a mixture of various verses)
Frankie & Johnny were lovers
Oh lordy how they could love
They swore to be true to each other
True as the stars above
He was her man he's a doing her wrong
Frankie was a good woman everybody knows
She spent five hundred dollars
Buying Johnny a suit of clothes
He was her man he's a doing her wrong
Frankie went down to the bar room
Just for a bucket of beer
She said hey mister bar tender
Has my loving man been here
He was her man he's a doing her wrong
I don't want to tell you no stories
I don't want to tell you no lies
Johnny was here about an hour ago
With a girl called Nelly Bly
He was her man he's a doing her wrong
Frankie went down to hotel
Didn't go there for fun
Underneath her Komono
She carried a fory four gun
He was her man he's a doing her wrong
Frankie stepped onto the transom
See what she could spy
There sat Johnny on the bed
Just a loving up Nelly Bly
He was her man he's a doing her wrong
She couldn't take it no longer
She couldn't take it no more
She shot poor Johnny in the back
Right through the hard wood door
He was her man he's a doing her wrong
Frankie she asked the judge
What's going to be my fine
Ninety nine years now lady
On that mean old frisco line
He was her man he's a doing her wrong
This story has no moral
This story has no end
It just goes to show now ladies
There aint no real good men
He was her man he's a doing her wrong