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Thread #107172   Message #2220264
Posted By: Stewie
21-Dec-07 - 08:31 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Frankie Dean (Darby & Tarlton)
Subject: Lyr Add: FRANKIE DEAN (Darby & Tarlton)
Hi, Roberto, here is the transcription by Phil Wells included the booklet accompanying the Bear Family box set of the complete recorded works of D & T. I gave it a quick listen and it sounds pretty accurate to me.

FRANKIE DEAN

Frankie Dean was a very good girl
Most everybody knows
She paid one hundred dollars
For Albert a suit of clothes
He's her man, he's doin' her wrong

Frankie went down to the pawn shop
She bought a 44
'I'm goin' to kill that man
Just sure as I can find
He's my man, he's done me wrong'

Frankie went down to the barroom
Called for a glass of wine
She asked, 'Mr bartender
Have you seen that man of mine?
He's my man, he's doin' me wrong'

Bartender said, 'Little Frankie'
Says, 'I ain't goin' tell you no stories'
Says, 'I ain't goin' tell no lies'
I saw your man 'bout an hour ago
With a girl named Alice Bly
He's your man, he's doin' you wrong'

Frankie walked out to the barroom
She saw with her surprise
She saw her loving Albert
With a girl named Alice Bly
'He's my man, he's done me wrong'

Frankie pulled out a little pistol
Shot him right through the eye
She shot him once, she shot him twice
He cried, 'Don't take my life
I'm your man, I've done you wrong'

'Turn me over, Little Frankie
Turn me over slow
Lord that bullet in my head
How it pains me so
You've killed your man, but I've done you wrong'

Pull out the rubber-tired buggies
Call out the six-horse hack
She's takin' her man to the graveyard
But she could not bring him back
'I killed my man, but he done me wrong'

--Stewie.