Frankie and Albert - Traditional
(Mississippi John Hurt did this song.  Hogeye Bill's version of the lyrics.)

Frankie was a good girl,
Everybody knows.
She spent a hundred dollars
On Alberts new suit of clothes.
He was her man, but he done her wrong.

Albert said to Frankie,
"I'm goin' out on the town tonight.
Ain't no need for you to wait up.
See you later, bye."
He was her man, but he done her wrong.

Frankie went down to the bar-room
Ordered up a glass of beer.
Says to the bartender,
"Has my lovin' man been here?
He was my man, but I suspect he's doing me wrong."

Says, "I ain't gonna tell you no story.
I ain't gonna tell you no lie.
I saw your man leave here about an hour ago
With a girl named Alice Fry.
He was your man, he prob'ly doin' you wrong.

Frankie went back to the crib house,
This time it weren't for fun.
Under her silk kimono
She brought her other man's gun,
To kill her man, 'cause he done her wrong.

Frankie went down to twenty-fourth street,
Looked up in the window high.
There she saw her man Albert
Humpin' on Alice Fry.
He was her man, but he done her wrong.

Frankie burst into the bedroom
And squeezed that fourty-four.
That old gun went rooty-toot-toot,
And Albert fell on the floor.
He was her man, but he done her wrong.
(Only thing he done wrong was turn his back on the bitch.)

"Please don't die," cried Frankie.
"Please don't die," she said.
But it was already too late,
Albert was already dead.
He was her man, but he done her wrong.

Roll out your rubber-tired carriage.
Roll out your rubber-tired hack.
There's twelve men goin' to the graveyard
Ain't but eleven comin' back.
He was her man, but he done her wrong.

The judge said to the jury
"Any fool can see:
She shot her lover dead
Murder in the second degree.
He was her man, but he done her wrong."

As they led her to the gallows
She held her head up high.
She said, "I admit that I done wrong.
He didn't deserve to die.
He was just misbehavin', and I've done the same damn thing."
(Where ya think I got the gun?)

When they put the noose around her neck
She was calm as a lady could be.
Turning her eyes up, she whispered
"Nearer my God to thee.
He was my man, and I done him wrong."