Chords for FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE

_ _ _ [C] _ _ You know sometimes some songs are just a pain [C#] and this is a song I must have played so many times yesterday
And I just couldn't get it right
And this morning I've been trying to sing it again
And I just you know sometimes I just want to have a blowout and [C] if I want to blow _
I try and blow out to Charlie Poole
_ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ This song is just torturing me _ _ _
No, you don't want to know _ and
[D] Charlie Poole was around in 19 _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
time leaving home.
It's called [A] Frankie and Johnny and
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[C] _ _ This is about the umpteenth time I've tried [A] to sing this song
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_ _ _ Right just pretend nothing's ever happened in those last sort [A] of _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ Now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts.
They had a quarrel one day
[D] Johnny vowed he'd leave her.
He said he [A] was going away never [F#] coming home
going away to [A] Rome
_ Now Frankie she begged and she pleaded my love Johnny, please stay.
[D] Oh my love
I've done you wrong, but please [A] don't go away and Frankie [E] cried
a [A] jolly sigh
Well, [D] I'm going away.
I'm going to stay I'm never [A] coming home
You're [F#] gonna miss me honey in the days to come
[A] When the winter wind begins to blow and grass covered up and [D] when you think of the way you're gonna miss back your [A] loving man
You're [E] gonna miss me honey in the days they [A] say to go
Now _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ Frankie turned said to a Johnny
Now your hours come
[D] Leave the pink kimono.
She drew up a 44 [A] gun these love [E] affairs
_ They're hard to [A] bear
_ Now Johnny he fled down stairway my love Frankie don't [B] you
[D] Frankie done ain't that 44 and the gun went a [A]-rooting to tootin Johnny [E] fell
Does he yell?
[D] Well, I'm going away.
I'm going to stay I'm never coming [A] home
You're [F#] gonna miss me honey in the days
They say [A] when the winter wind begins to blow and grass [F#m] covered up [D] and when you think of the way you're gonna wish me back your [A] loving man
You're [E] gonna miss me honey in the days they say [A] to go _ _ _ _
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ I sent for your rubber tight horses sent for your rubber tight [B] hags
[D] Carry old Johnny to the graveyard.
I shot [A] him in the back with [E] a creepy gun
She's a creature [A] begun
_ I sent for some policeman take me right away
_ [D] Lock me down in the dungeon and throw a [A] key away cuz [E] Johnny's dead
because [A] he said
[D] Well, I'm going away I'm going to stay I'm never coming home
You're [E] gonna miss me honey in the days
They come [A] when the winter wind begins to blow and grass covered up and [D] when you think of the way you're gonna take me back your [A] loving man
You're gonna [E] wish me honey [F#] in the days they say [A] to go _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts they had a quarrel [B] one [D] day
Johnny said he'd leave her he said he was [F#m] going away never coming [F#] home
He's going away to [A] Rome
[D] Well, I'm going away.
I'm gonna stay I'm never [A] coming home
_ You're gonna [E] miss me honey in the days
They say when the winter wind begins to blow and grass covered [D] up and when you think of the way you're gonna take me back your loving man
You're [E] gonna miss me
honey in the days they [A] say to go _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] That was [C] littered absolutely littered _ _ _
With everything that was wrong
_ _ I'm just so tired and emotional.
_ I can't do this song again _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [F#] _ You know [B] if _ I was professional _
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