Artist: | Various (English) |
User: | Waeller Wutz |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
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Titel: Frankie And Johnny
(Hughie Cannon)
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Frankie and Johnny were lovers
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O Lordy, how they could love
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They swore to be true to each other
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Just as true as the stars above
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
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Frankie and Johnny went walking
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Johnny had a brand new suit
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Frankie paid a hundred dollars
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Just to make her man look cute
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
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Johnny said, "I've got to leave you,
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But I won't be very long
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Don't you wait up for me, honey,
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Nor worry while I'm gone."
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
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Frankie went down to the corner,
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Stopped in to buy her some beer
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Says to the fat bartender,
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"Has my Johnny man been here?"
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
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Well, I ain't going to tell you no story,
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Ain't going to tell you no lie
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Johnny went by 'bout an hour ago,
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With a girl named Nellie Bly
B7 E A Am E
He is your man but he's doing you wr- - - ong
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Frankie went home in a hurry,
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She didn't go there for fun
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She hurried home to get ahold,
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Of Johnny's shootin' gun
B7 E A Am E
He was her men but he's doing her wr- - - ong
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Frankie took a cab, at the corner,
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Says, driver step on this cab
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She was just a desperate woman,
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Gettin' two-timed by her man
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he's doin' her wr- - - ong
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Frankie got out at south Clark Street,
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Looked in a window, so high
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Saw Johnny, man, a lovin' up,
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That high-brow Nellie Bly
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
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Johnny saw Frankie a-comin',
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Out the back door he did scoot
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But Frankie took aim with her pistol,
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And the gun went roota-toot-toot
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
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O, roll me over so easy,
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Roll me over so slow
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Roll me over easy boys,
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Cause my wounds they hurt me so
B7 E A Am E
I was her man but I done her wr- - - ong
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Bring out your long black coffin,
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Bring out your funeral clothes
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Johnny's gone an' cashed his checks,
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To the graveyard, Johnny goes
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
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Drive out your rubber tired carriage,
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Drive out your rubber tired hack
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There's twelve men going to the graveyard,
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But eleven comin' back
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
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The sheriff arrested poor Frankie,
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He took her to jail the same day
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He locked her up in the dungeon cell,
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And he threw the key away
B7 E A Am E
He was her man but he done her wr- - - ong
Frankie and Johnny
(alternativ: Frankie and Albert,
Frankie Was a Good Girl)
ist der Titel eines amerikanischen
Volksliedes über das dramatische
Ende einer Liebesbeziehung.
Es geht zurück auf den Mord an
Al Britt durch Frankie Baker
in St. Louis im Jahre 1899.
Die erste gedruckte Version des Liedes
erschien 1904, als Komponist und
Texter wird Hughie Cannon angegeben.
Im Lied wird der vom Pech verfolgte
Johnny von Nellie Bly verführt und
wendet sich von Frankie ab, woraufhin
diese eifersüchtig wird und ihn aus
Rache erschießt.
(Quelle: https://de.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Frankie_and_Johnny)