| — Suffolk Marketing-SMI 2
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| — peak Billboard position # 20 in 1961
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| — traditional folk song with many lyrics variations
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| — charted by Ted Lewis (#9) and Frank Crumit (#18) in 1927
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| — charted by Guy Lombardo (#21) in 1942
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| — charted by Johnny Cash (#57) in 1959
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| — charted by Sam Cooke (#14) in 1963
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| — charted by The Greenwood County Singers (#75) in 1964
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| — charted by Elvis Presley (#25) in 1966
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| Little Frankie went down to the barroom, she asked for a glass of beer
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| She said, «Hey, bartender, has my Johnny been here?»
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| «He's my man but he’s done me wrong»
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| The bartender said «Frankie, ya know I won’t tell ya no lie»
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| «He left here about a minute ago with a gal named Alice Fry»
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| «He's your man, but he’s doin' you wrong»
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| Frankie was a good little woman, surely everybody knows
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| She paid one hundred dollars for Johnny’s new suit of clothes
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| She loved her man but he done her wrong
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| Well then Frankie went down Broadway with a razor in her hand
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| She said «Stand back, all you women, I’m here for my cheatin' man»
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| «Yes, he’s my man but he’s done me wrong»
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| It was on a Friday mornin' about a ha’past nine o’clock
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| Frankie pulled her 44 and fired three fatal shots
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| She shot her man 'cause he done her wrong
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| (Why don’tcha run, Frankie?) they said (Frankie why don’t you run?)
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| 'cause here come the Chief Of Police with the 44 smokeless gun
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| You killed your man, we know he done you wrong
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| SPOKEN while FADING
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| Yeah, he done you wrong, Frankie
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| You shoulda shot him forty times
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| I’m a witness, Frankie, I was there
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| When you shot that man I saw
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| These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
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| music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets. |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Frankie And Johnny - Re-Recording , by - Brook Benton. Song from the album Brook Benton Selected Hits Vol. 1, in the genre R&B