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Frankie was a good girl

Everybody knows

Paid one hundred dollars

For Albert's new suit of clothes

He was her man but he 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 her ?"

He was her man but he done her wrong.

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

I ain't gonna tell you no lies

I saw Albert an hour ago

With a gal named Alice Bly"

He was her man but he done her wrong.

Frankie went down to 12th street

Lookin' up through the window high

She saw her Albert there

Lovin' up Alice Bly

He was her man but he 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 but 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 "Nearer, my God, to Thee"

He was her man but he done her wrong.