Key: Db major
Verse 1
B
C#m
E
B
E
B
Frankie an
F#
B
d Johnny were lovers,
oh, how they could love
B
F#
He was her man,
E
B
but he'd done her wrong,
E
B
so wrong
F#
B
Well, Johnny said, I've gotta go now,
I won't be very long
B
F#
C#m
He was her man
F#
E
B
E
B
But he done her wrong, so wrong
F#
B
Well, Frankie went down
to the bar room
Ordered up a big glass of beer
Has my Johnny Man been
B
F#
here? know he's my man
B
E
B
He been doin' me wrong, so wrong
He said, I ain't gonna
tell you no stories,
ain't gonna tell you no lies,
with that no good Nellie Bly,
B
E
F#
I know he's your man,
E
B
so wrong
F#
E
B
Well Frankie drank up all her beer,
F#
Mr. Bartender, I've taken to drinking again
B
F#
E
B
E
B
on account of my man
F#
E
B
Well, Frankie went out the dark alley
She didn't go there for fun
B
F#
Through using her man
E
B
E
Well, Frankie went
F#
B
F#
B
Looked in a window so high
E
B
But he'd done her wrong,
E
B
so wrong
F#
B
Well, Johnny saw Frankie comin'
Out the back door he did scoot
And the gun went rooty -toot -toot
B
F#
He was her man
E
B
But he'd done her wrong, so wrong
F#
B
Now, it wasn't murder
in the second degree
It wasn't murder in the third,
F#
E
B
like a hundred drops of bird,
B
E
F#
But it done her wrong, so wrong,
E
F#
B
well you better roll out those
rubber -tired carriages,
roll out those rubber -tired hacks.
to that graveyard,
they'll never bring him back,
B
F#
he was her man.
E
B
E
so wrong
B
F#
E
B
E
B
F#
B
F#
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