G
Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts; they had a quarrel one day,
C                                                  G
Johnny vowed he'd leave her; he said he was going away,
             D                   G
Never coming home, going away to roam.
G
Frankie she begged and she pleaded, "My love Johnny, please stay,
C                                                            G
Now, oh, my honey, I've done you wrong, but please don't go away."
            D                  G
then Johnny sighed and Frankie cried,


[Chorus]
        C                                               G
Oh, I'm going away, I'm going to stay, and never coming home
      D
Gonna miss me, honey, in the days to come,
         G
When the winter winds begin to blow, the ground is covered up
             C                                            G
And when you think of me, gonna wish me back, your loving man,
             D                                      G
You're gonna miss me honey in the day they say's to come.


[Verse 2]
G
Frankie done said to her Johnny, "Say, man, your hour has come"
C                                                G
Underneath her silk kimono she drew a forty-four gun
             D                 G
These love affairs are hard to bear
G
Johnny he fled down the stairway, "My love, Frankie, don't shoot."
C                                                                     G
Frankie just aimed with the forty-four five times with a rooty-toot-toot,
          D                  G
As Johnny fell, then Frankie yelled,


[Chorus]
         C                                              G
Oh, I'm going away, I'm going to stay, and never coming home
      D
Gonna miss me, honey, in the days to come,
         G
When the winter winds begin to blow, the ground is covered up
             C                                            G
And when you think of me, gonna wish me back, your loving man,
             D                                      G
You're gonna miss me honey in the day they say's to come.


[Verse 3]
G
Send for your rubber-tired hearses, send for your rubber-tired hacks,
C                                                          G
Carry little Johnny to the graveyard, I've shot him in the back
                 D                  G
With a great big gun, as he went to run
G
Send for a thousand policemen. Take me right away,
C                                                    G
Lock me down in the dungeon cell and throw the key away,
            D                     G
For Johnny's dead, just 'cause he said


[Chorus]
        C                                               G
Oh, I'm going away, I'm going to stay, and never coming home
      D
Gonna miss me, honey, in the days to come,
         G
When the winter winds begin to blow, the ground is covered up
             C                                            G
And when you think of me, gonna wish me back, your loving man,
             D                                      G
You're gonna miss me honey in the day they say's to come.