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Van Morrison - Frankie And Johnny Lyrics

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  • (Traditional)
  • [L.D.] We'll take it a bit slower
  • This is, this is the, huh, this is the first song I ever learned, actually
  • Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
  • Lordy, how they could love
  • Swore to be true to each other
  • Yeah, true to the skies above
  • He was her man, wouldn't do her no wrong
  • And Frankie and Johnny went walkin'
  • And Johnny had on a new suit
  • Yeah, Frankie spent one-hundred dollar notes
  • Just to make her man look cute
  • He was her man, he wouldn't do her no wrong
  • Frankie went over to the barroom
  • Stopped for a bottle of beer
  • Said to the old bartender man
  • Has my lover Johnny man been here?
  • He was my man, Lord, but he'd been doin' me wrong, so wrong.
  • Yeah Frankie looked over the transom door
  • And then to her great surprise
  • There sat her lover man Johnny
  • Makin' love to Nellie Bly
  • He was her man, but he was doin' her wrong
  • Well Frankie lifted up her kimono dress
  • And she drew (ladaladalala) out a little .44
  • She shot once, twice, three times (three times) she shot him
  • And through that hardwood (door) floor
  • Yeah she shot her man (yeah he was her man)
  • Well but he been doin' her wrong yeah
  • He said, roll me over so careful ah
  • Roll me over so slow,
  • Oh roll me on to my left hand side,
  • Because your bullet hurt me so,
  • I was your man, but I been doin' you wrong.
  • Play it Chris!
  • (Instrumental)
  • Well they sent for Frankie's mother
  • Come down to Huddy's saloon
  • To see what's the matter with her boy
  • She come down, Frankie looked up at her
  • Here what she said:
  • She said, Oh Mrs. Johnson, oh forgive me please
  • Well I killed your lovin' son, Johnny
  • But I'm down on my bended knee
  • I shot your man, 'cause he was doin' me wrong. ah
  • She said, I'll forgive you Frankie,
  • She said, I'll forgive you not, not
  • For killin' my lovin' son Johnny,
  • He's the only support that I've got,
  • 'Cause you shot my man and he was doin' you wrong.
  • Well the last time I seen Frankie
  • She was a-sittin' in a dungeon cell
  • She would be there moanin', herself
  • With no one there to care
  • She shot her man, a he'd been doin' her wrong, so wrong
  • Well bring out the overtime hearse all day long
  • You gotta bring out the pony and truck hey
  • They're gonna take Johnny, Johnny to the cemetary (graveyard)
  • And they ain't never coming back
  • Oh he was her man, oh but he been doin' her wrong, so wrong
  • Well the story ain't got no moral, Lordy
  • But the story ain't got no end
  • Well the story only goes to show
  • That there ain't no damn good in men
  • He was her man, but he was doin' her wrong
  • Yeah, ba-da-ba-ba-da-ba-ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba
  • (Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)

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