Frankie and Johnny-Ed McCurdy

[ti:Frankie and Johnny] [ar:Ed McCurdy] [al:The First Ever Newport Folk Festival - 1959, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Frankie and Johnny - Ed McCurdy [00:03.37]Frankie and Johnny were lovers [00:05.03] [00:06.24]And O Lordy how they could love [00:08.41] [00:09.42]Swore to be true to each other [00:11.48] [00:12.34]As true as the stars above [00:14.84]He was her man he wouldn't do her wrong [00:19.84] [00:22.04]Frankie went down to the corner [00:24.25] [00:25.26]Just for a bucket of beer [00:26.86] [00:28.04]Said "Mr Bartender [00:30.48]Has my lovin' Johnny been here [00:33.30]He's my man He wouldn't do me wrong " [00:38.07] [00:40.27]"Well I don't want to cause you no trouble [00:42.08] [00:43.19]And I don't want to tell you no lie [00:45.49] [00:46.29]Seen your lovin' Johnny 'bout an hour ago [00:48.89]Makin' love to Nellie Bly [00:51.71]He's your man and he's doin' you wrong [00:56.44] [00:58.38]Well Frankie looked over the transom [01:00.71] [01:01.41]And there to her surprise [01:03.36] [01:04.43]Seen her loving Johnny on four-poster bed [01:07.43]Making love to Nellie Bly [01:09.24] [01:10.08]He was her man and he was doin' her wrong [01:14.51] [01:16.44]Frankie reached into her kimono [01:18.47] [01:19.44]And pulled out a little 44 [01:21.54] [01:22.47]Root-a-toot-toot three times she shot [01:25.31]Right through that hardward door [01:27.92]Shot her man cause he was doing her wrong [01:32.38] [01:34.82]"Roll me over easy [01:37.10] [01:37.86]And roll me over slow [01:40.13] [01:40.70]Roll me on my left side [01:43.65]Those bullets hurt me so [01:46.56]I was her man and I done her wrong " [01:51.73] [01:53.35]"Bring on your rubber-tired hearses [01:55.58] [01:56.35]Bring on your rubber-tired hack [01:59.22]Takin' my man to the graveyard [02:01.84]And I ain't a-gonna bring him back [02:04.30]I shot my man 'cause he was doin' me wrong " [02:09.69] [02:11.39]Frankie looked up Elm Street [02:14.31]As far as she could see [02:15.94] [02:17.27]And all she could hear was two-string bow [02:20.02]Playing "Nearer My God to Thee" [02:22.56]All over town Johnny's dead [02:27.79] [02:29.83]Last time I saw Frankie [02:32.65]Sittin' in a 'lectric chair [02:34.70] [02:35.67]Getting ready to meet her God [02:38.45]With sweat pouring down from her hair [02:41.39]Shot her man 'cause he done her wrong