[00:07.45]Frankie was a good girl
[00:09.67]Everybody knows
[00:11.88]Paid one hundred dollars
[00:13.61]For Albert's new suit of clothes
[00:15.48]He was her man but he done her wrong.
[00:20.74]Albert said "I'm leaving you"
[00:23.29]Won't be gone for long
[00:25.50]Don't wait up for me
[00:27.23]A-worry about me when I'm gone
[00:28.77]He was her man but he done her wrong.
[00:34.24]Frankie went down to the corner saloon
[00:36.57]Get a bucket of beer
[00:38.50]Said to the bartender
[00:40.13]"Has my lovin' man been her ?"
[00:42.46]He was her man but he done her wrong.
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[01:00.59]"Well, I ain't gonna tell you no stories“
[01:02.96]I ain't gonna tell you no lies
[01:05.44]I saw Albert an hour ago
[01:07.22]With a gal named Alice Bly"
[01:09.79]He was her man but he done her wrong.
[01:14.39]Frankie went down to 12th street
[01:16.62]Lookin' up through the window high
[01:19.00]She saw her Albert there
[01:21.20]Lovin' up Alice Bly
[01:23.70]He was her man but he done her wrong.
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[01:42.41]Frankie pulled out a pistol
[01:44.60]Pulled out a forty-four
[01:46.83]Gun went off a-rootie-toot-toot
[01:48.68]And Albert fell on the floor
[01:50.92]He was her man but he done her wrong.
[01:55.99]Frankie got down upon her knees
[01:57.99]Took Albert into her lap
[02:00.61]Started to hug and kiss him
[02:02.39]But there was no bringin' him back
[02:04.43]He was her man but he done her wrong.
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[02:23.70]"Gimme a thousand policemen“
[02:25.00]Throw me into a cell
[02:27.61]I shot my Albert dead
[02:29.34]And now I'm goin' to hell"
[02:31.13]He was my man but he done me wrong.
[02:36.29]Judge said to the jury
[02:38.80]"Plain as a thing can be“
[02:40.91]A woman shot her lover down
[02:42.70]Murder in the second degree"
[02:44.64]He was her man but he done her wrong.
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[03:03.50]Frankie went to the scaffold
[03:05.34]Calm as a girl could be
[03:07.87]Turned her eyes up toward the heavens
[03:09.58]Said "Nearer, my God, to Thee"
[03:11.67]He was her man but he done her wrong.
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