Frankie & Albert

Frankie was a good girl
 Everybody knows
 Paid $100 for Albert's new suite 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
 Or 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 here?"
 He was her man but he done her wrong
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 "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
 Lovein' up Alice Bly
 He was her man but he done her wrong
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 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
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 "Gimme a thousand policemen
 Throw me into a cell
 I shot my Albert dead
 And now I'm goin' to hell
 He was her 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
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 Frankie went to the scaffold
 Calm as a girl could be
 Turned her eyes up towards the heavens
 Said, "nearer, my god, to thee"
 He was her man but he done her wrong