Key: F major•
Verse 1
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Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts,
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they had a quarrel one day
Johnny said he was leaving,
he said that he was going away,
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going away to Rome,
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Frankie she begged and she pleaded,
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my love Johnny please stay
but please don't go away
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And Frankie sighed as Johnny cried
in the days to come
to blow
the ground is covered up
you're gonna wish me back
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when the day they say is to come
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Now Frankie Dunn said to her, Johnny,
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oh man, your hour done come
Johnny, he ran down the stairway
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Yelling, my God, Frankie, don't shoot
you know that gun went
a -rooty -toot -toot
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And Johnny yelled, just as he fell
I'm going to stay,
in the days to come
been to grow
the ground was covered up
you're going to wish me back
you can join in on that
part if you want to
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Call out your rubber -tired hearses,
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call out your rubber -tired hacks
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I shot my boyfriend in the back
Call out some policeman
to take me right away
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My Johnny's dead, just because he said
I'm a -goin' to stay,
in the days to come
the ground's covered up
you're gonna wish me back
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in the days, they say, to come
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF Dm Bb C
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