Bob Dylan Frankie Albert Lyrics

Frankie Albert Lyrics

Frankie was a good girl

Everybody knows

Paid one hundred dollars

For Albert's new suit of clothes

He was her man that done her wrong



Albert said, "I'm leaving you"

Won't be gone for long

Don't wait up for me

A-worry about me when I'm gone

He was her man but he done her wrong



Frankie went down to the corner saloon

Get a bucket of beer

Said to the bartender

"Has my lovin' man been here?"

He was her man but he done her wrong



"Well, I ain't gonna tell you no story

I ain't gonna tell you no lie

I saw Albert an hour ago

With a gal named Alice Bly"

If he is her man he done her wrong



Frankie went down to 12th street

Look up through the window high

She saw her Albert there

Lovin' up Alice Bly

He was her man, he would done her wrong



Frankie pulled out a pistol

Pulled out a forty-four

Gun went off a-rootie-toot-toot

And Albert fell on the floor

He was her man but he done her wrong



Frankie got down upon her knees

Took Albert into her lap

Started to hug and kiss him

But there was no bringin' him back

He was her man, he done her wrong



Gimme a thousand policemen

Throw me into a cell

I shot my Albert dead

And now I'm goin' to hell

He was my man but he done me wrong



Judge said to the jury

"Plain as a thing can be

A woman shot her lover down

Murder in the second degree"

He was her man but he done her wrong



Frankie went to the scaffold

Calm as a girl could be

Turned her eyes up toward the heavens

Said "Near my God, to Thee"

He was her man but he done her wrong