Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts

Boy how they could love

Swore to be true to each other

True as the stars above

'Cause he was her man

But he done her wrong

One night Frankie happened to pass by the hotel

Just casually glanced into a window so high

And who did she see but her lovin' man

Lovin' up old Nellie Bligh

She caught her man

Doin' her wrong

Well she went round the corner to her favourite pawn shop

This time she didn't go there for fun

'Cause when she left underneath her long red kimono

She was totin' a forty-four gun

She was gunnin' for her man

Who was doin' her wrong

Then back Frankie dashed to that hotel

Started yankin' the bell

She said Stand back you madam and floozies

Or I'll blow each and every one of you straight to hell

I want my man

Who's done me wrong

Johnnie in panic mounted the staircase

Screamin' Oh Frankie don't shoot

Three times she pulled a trigger on a forty-four gun

The gun went Root-toot-toot

She nailed her man

Who'd done her wrong

So they put her away in a dungeon

Way up in a dark dingy cell

In the south east corner of a jail

Where the wind seemed to blow straight from hell

For killin' her man

Who done her wrong

But the day Frankie mounted the scaffold

She was just as calm as any gal could be

And raising her eyes to heaven she cried

Lord I'm comin' to thee

I'm sorry I killed my man

Who done me wrong