Pete Seeger - Frankie and Johnnie Lyrics

Lyrics Frankie and Johnnie - Pete Seeger



Now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
Oh Lord, how they did love
Swore to be true to each other true as the stars above
He was her man but he wouldn't do her wrong.
Now Frankie went down to the corner
Just for a bucket of beer
She said Mr Bartender has my loving Johnny been here
He's my man, he wouldn't do me wrong.
I don't want to cause you no trouble
Woman, I ain't gonna lie
But I saw your lover an hour ago
With a girl named Nellie Blie
He's your man but he's doin' you wrong.
Now Frankie looked over the transom
She saw to her surprise
There on the cab sat Johnny
Making love to Nellie Blie
He's my man, but he's doin' me wrong.
Frankie threw back her comona
Took out her little 44
Rutty too-too three times she shot right through
That hardwood door
Shot her man, he was doin' her wro
Now bring out your rubber tired hearses
Bring out your rubber tired hack
I'm taken said the man to the graveyard
But only six of 'em called him back
He was my man but he done me wrong.
Bring round a thousand policemen
Bring 'em around today
To lock me down in that dungeon cell
And throw that key away
I shot my man, he was doin' me wrong.
Now Frankie she said to the warden
What are they goin' to do
The warden he said to Frankie
It's the electric chair for you
You shot your man, he was doin' you wrong.
Now this story has no moral
This story has no end
This story just goes to show
That there ain't no good in man
He was her man, but he done her wrong



Writer(s): Phil Moore


Pete Seeger - Songs of Freedom & Protest
Album Songs of Freedom & Protest
date of release
25-09-2012

1 Wasn't That a Time (Concert Version)
2 Guantanamera (Live)
3 House of the Rising Sun
4 Frankie and Johnnie
5 Henry Martin
6 Fare You Well, Polly
7 Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles)
8 I've Been Working on the Railroad
9 Silver Dagger
10 John Brown's Body
11 East Virginia
12 He Lies in the American Land
13 Wildwood Flower
14 Ox Driver's Song
15 All My Trials
16 We Shall Not Be Moved
17 Donna Donna
18 Frog Went A-Courting
19 John Riley
20 The Fox
21 El Preso Numero Nueve
22 Rake & Rambling Boy
23 Mary Hamilton
24 Little Moses
25 Jesse James
26 Barbara Allen
27 John Henry
28 Silkie
29 Casey Jones
30 Railroad Boy
31 Talking Union
32 Plaisir D'amour
33 Which Side Are You On?
34 Once I Knew a Pretty Girl
35 All I Want
36 Banks of the Ohio
37 Union Maid
38 Engine 143
39 Goodnight, Irene
40 Lonesome Road
41 The Bells of Rhymney
42 Pal of Mine
43 Wasn't That a Time? (Live)
44 The Cherry Tree Carol
45 We Shall Overcome (Live)
46 Wagoner's Lad
47 Guantanamera
48 Lily of the West
49 The Sinking of the Reuben James
50 Old Blue
51 Follow the Drinking Ground
52 The Trees They Do Grow High
53 What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby
54 Well May the World Go
55 O What a Beautiful City
56 Careless Love
57 Sail Away Ladies
58 One Grain Of Sand - Abiyoyo
59 Black Is the Colour
60 Sixteen Tons
61 The Banks of the Ohio
62 Rock Island Line
63 Lowlands
64 The Strange Death of John Doe
65 Don't Weep After Me
66 Song for Bridges
67 Kitty
68 So Soon the Morning
69 Careless Love




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