Frankie and Johnnie - Ethel Waters
Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
Boy how they could love
Swore to be true to each other
True as the stars above
Cause he was her man
But he done her wrong
One night Frankie happened
To pass by the hotel
Just casually glanced
Into a window so high
And who did she see
But her loving man
Loving up old Nellie Bligh
She caught her man
Doing her wrong
Well she went round
The corner to her favourite pawn shop
This time she didn't go there for fun
Cause when she left
Underneath her long red kimono
She was toting a forty-four gun
She was gunning for her man
Who was doing her wrong
Then back Frankie dashed to that hotel
Started yanking the bell
She said stand back
You madam and floozies
Or I'll blow each and every one
Of you straight to hell
I want my man
Who's done me wrong
Johnnie in panic mounted the staircase
Screaming oh Frankie don't shoot
Three times she pulled
A trigger on a forty-four gun
The gun went
Root toot toot
She nailed her man
Who'd done her wrong
So they put her away in a dungeon
Way up in a dark dingy cell
In the south east corner of a jail
Where the wind seemed
To blow straight from hell
For killing her man
Who done her wrong
But the day Frankie mounted the scaffold
She was just as calm as any gal could be
And raising her eyes to heaven she cried
Lord I'm coming to thee
I'm sorry I killed my man
Who done me wrong
