[00:10.23]Frankie was a good woman
[00:11.67]As everybody knows
[00:15.72]She did all the work around the house
[00:17.67]And pressed her Albert's clothes
[00:19.92]He was her man but he done her wrong
[00:24.48]Albert was a yeller man
[00:26.88]Coal black curly hair
[00:30.36]Everybody up in St Louis
[00:31.41]Thought he was a millionaire
[00:31.98]He was my son and the only one
[00:37.32]Miss Frankie went to the barroom
[00:38.28]Called for a bottle of beer
[00:39.21]Says to the bartender：
[00:40.92]Has Mister Albert been here
[00:41.85]He is my man and he's doin' me wrong
[00:43.53]Frankie and Albert were lovers
[00:45.30]Oh my God how they did love
[00:45.90]Just like sisters and brothers
[00:46.89]The w***e and her turtle dove
[00:47.43]For he was her man but she shot him down
[00:50.19]The bartender says to Miss Frankie：
[00:50.97]I cannot tell a lie
[00:51.48]Mister Albert was here about a minute ago
[00:52.92]With a gal name Alkali
[00:53.61]He is your man but he's doin' you wrong
[00:56.73]Little Frankie went down the Broadway
[00:58.08]With her razor in her hand
[00:58.68]Says Stand aside you chippie
[00:59.28]I'm lookin' for my man
[01:00.60]He's a gamblin' man won't treat me right
[01:02.91]Miss Frankie went up the stairway
[01:04.05]She didn't go for fun
[01:04.80]Underneath the ruffles of her petticoat
[01:05.76]She had a young Gatlin' gun
[01:06.27]He was her man an' he was doin' her wrong
[01:07.74]Miss Frankie opened the winder
[01:08.61]The gun she fired twice
[01:09.21]The second shot she fired
[01:10.29]She took Mister Albert's life
[01:10.95]He was her man but he was doin' her wrong
[01:11.97]Well when Frankie shot Albert
[01:12.69]First he fell to his knees
[01:13.44]Then he looked up in her face
[01:15.48]Says Frankie please don't shoot me no mo'
[01:16.50]Please babe don't shoot me no mo'
[01:17.91]She shot three bullets in him
[01:18.66]He staggered to the door
[01:20.01]He gasped Oh Frankie you can't play 'round
[01:21.18]'Round this hop joint any more
[01:21.81]I was your man but I done you wrong
[01:24.15]Turn me over Frankie
[01:25.80]Turn me over slow
[01:26.22]Turn me over easy on my left side
[01:28.23]So my heart won't overflow
[01:30.12]And kill me dead and kill me dead
[01:32.19]Took po' Albert to the graveyard
[01:34.08]Stuck him in the ground
[01:35.70]Frankie she was singin'
[01:36.24]I shot the sucker down
[01:36.81]He was my man but he done me wrong
[01:38.10]The people says to Frankie
[01:40.02]Little Frankie why don't you run
[01:41.28]Yonder comes the Chief Police
[01:42.09]With a smokeless 44 gun
[01:42.84]You killed your man wouldn't treat you right
[01:44.22]Well says Miss Frankie
[01:45.09]I don't care if I die
[01:45.69]Take and hang me to a telegraph pole
[01:47.52]Hang me good and high
[01:48.18]He was my man but he done me wrong
[01:50.91]Little Frankie went down Broadway
[01:51.90]As far as she could see
[01:52.59]And all she could hear was a two string bow
[01:54.93]Playing Nearer My God To Thee
[01:55.89]All over the town little Albert's dead
[01:57.15]Frankie went to Albert's mother
[01:58.11]Fell across her knees
[01:59.64]Said：I'm sorry I killed your son
[02:00.24]Won't you excuse me please
[02:00.87]He was my man but he done me wrong
[02:01.83]I will forgive you Frankie
[02:02.52]I will forgive you not
[02:03.57]You sho' shot Albert
[02:03.99]He's the only son I got
[02:05.52]He was my son and the only one
[02:06.42]Frankie says to the sheriff
[02:07.02]Well what do you think it'll be
[02:07.74]The sheriff said：It looks like a case
[02:08.63]Of murder in the first degree
[02:09.27]He was your man but you shot him down
[02:10.65]It was not murder in the first degree
[02:11.79]It was not murder in the third
[02:12.99]A woman simply dropped her man
[02:13.71]Like a hunter drops a bird
[02:14.37]He was her man but she shot him down
[02:15.36]Frankie said to the sheriff
[02:16.74]Oh what do you think they'll do
[02:17.97]Strap you in the 'lectric chair
[02:18.48]'N' send thirty thousand volts through you
[02:19.80]Albert was your man but you shot him down
[02:21.24]Passin' through the jail house
[02:22.38]Went by Frankie's cell
[02:22.95]Asked her how she was feelin'
[02:24.75]She said Go to Hell
[02:25.32]He was her man but she shot him down
[02:26.94]Once more I saw Frankie
[02:27.60]She was sittin' in her chair
[02:29.10]Waitin' for to go an' meet her God
[02:29.97]With the sweat drippin' out her hair
[02:30.75]Albert was her man but she shot him down
[02:31.95]Took Frankie to the graveyard
[02:33.12]And stuck her in the ground
[02:34.47]Now all that's left of Frankie
[02:36.12]Is a wooden cross and mound
[02:36.75]He was her man both dead and gone
[02:38.79]Two little pieces of crape
[02:39.48]Hangin' on the door
[02:40.56]Show that lovin' Albert
[02:41.10]Ain't lovin' Albert no more
[02:49.65]Frankie shot her man who was doin' her wrong