Frankie And Johnny-Ethel Waters

[ti:Frankie And Johnny] [ar:Ethel Waters] [al:Ethel Waters 1929 -1939] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Frankie And Johnny - Ethel Waters [00:06.05]Frankie and johnny were sweethearts [00:08.16] [00:10.10]Boy how they could love [00:12.94] [00:13.98]Swore to be true to each other [00:16.48] [00:17.92]True as the stars above [00:20.08]'Cause he was her man [00:22.33] [00:24.06]But he done her wrong [00:26.70] [00:28.80]One night frankie happened [00:30.12]To pass by the hotel [00:31.86] [00:33.50]Just casually glanced [00:34.76]Into a window so high [00:37.73]And who did she see but her lovin' man [00:40.73] [00:41.68]Lovin' up old nellie bligh [00:43.97]She caught her man [00:45.95] [00:47.93]Doin' her wrong [00:49.96] [00:52.21]Well she went round the corner [00:54.22]To her favourite pawn shop [00:56.11] [00:57.34]This time she didn't go there for fun [00:59.75] [01:00.96]'Cause when she left underneath [01:02.59]Her long red kimono [01:03.90] [01:04.43]She was totin' a forty four gun [01:06.99]She was gunnin' for her man [01:10.00] [01:11.40]Who was doin' her wrong [01:14.02] [01:15.80]Then back frankie [01:17.17]Dashed to that hotel [01:19.28] [01:20.52]Started yankin' the bell [01:23.47]She said stand back [01:24.80]You madam and floozies [01:27.28]Or I'll blow each and every [01:28.86]One of you straight to hell [01:30.86]I want my man [01:33.00] [01:34.84]Who's done me wrong [01:37.17] [01:39.72]Johnnie in panic mounted the staircase [01:42.64] [01:44.15]Screamin' oh frankie don't shoot [01:46.76] [01:47.53]Three times she pulled a [01:49.62]Trigger on a forty four gun [01:51.54]The gun went root toot toot [01:53.53] [01:54.29]She nailed her man [01:57.57] [01:58.55]Who'd done her wrong [02:00.80] [02:02.80]So they put her away in a dungeon [02:07.63] [02:08.30]Way up in a dark dingy cell [02:11.82]In the south east corner of a jail [02:13.81] [02:14.55]Where the wind seemed [02:15.90]O blow straight from hell [02:17.58] [02:18.11]For killin' her man [02:20.68] [02:22.27]Who done her wrong [02:24.50] [02:26.74]But the day frankie [02:28.74]Mounted the scaffold [02:30.57] [02:33.25]She was just as calm as [02:34.96]Any gal could be [02:36.25] [02:37.67]And raising her eyes to [02:39.21]Heaven she cried [02:40.41] [02:41.04]Lord I'm comin' to thee [02:44.86] [02:45.41]I'm sorry I killed my man [02:50.44] [02:52.61]Who done me wrong