Brook Benton Frankie And Johnny Lyrics

Frankie And Johnny Lyrics

Frankie and Johnny

- Artist: Brook Benton as sung on "The Satin Sound
Brook Benton"
- Suffolk Marketing-SMI 2
- peak Billboard position # 20 in
1961
- traditional folk song with many lyrics variations
- charted by Ted
Lewis (#9) and Frank Crumit (#18) in 1927
- charted by Guy Lombardo (#21) in
1942
- charted by Johnny Cash (#57) in 1959
- charted by Sam Cooke (#14)
in 1963
- charted by The Greenwood County Singers (#75) in 1964
- charted
by Elvis Presley (#25) in 1966


Little Frankie went down to the
barroom, she asked for a glass of beer
She said, "Hey, bartender, has my
Johnny been here?"
"He's my man but he's done me wrong"

The bartender
said "Frankie, ya know I won't tell ya no lie"
"He left here about a minute
ago with a gal named Alice Fry"
"He's your man, but he's doin' you
wrong"

Frankie was a good little woman, surely everybody knows
She
paid one hundred dollars for Johnny's new suit of clothes
She loved her man
but he done her wrong

Well then Frankie went down Broadway with a razor
in her hand
She said "Stand back, all you women, I'm here for my cheatin'
man"
"Yes, he's my man but he's done me wrong"

It was on a Friday
mornin' about a ha'past nine o'clock
Frankie pulled her 44 and fired three
fatal shots
She shot her man 'cause he done her wrong

(Why dontcha
run, Frankie?) they said (Frankie why don't you run?)
'cause here come the
Chief Of Police with the 44 smokeless gun
You killed your man, we know he
done you wrong

SPOKEN while FADING
Yeah, he done you wrong,
Frankie
You shoulda shot him forty times
I'm a witness, Frankie, I was
there
When you shot that man I saw


Transcribed by Robin
Hood

These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned
above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings,
sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.