Frankie and Johnnie were sweethearts   They had a quarrel one day   Johnny vowed he would leave her   He said he was going away   Never coming home, goin' away to roam      "My love, Johnny, please stay   Now, oh, my honey   I've done you wrong but please don't go away"   Then Johnny sighed while Frankie cried      "Oh, I'm a-going away, I'm a-goin' to stay   Never coming home   You're gonna miss me, honey   In the days to come      When the winter winds begin to blow   The ground is covered up   And when you think of the way   You're gonna wish me back, your lovin' man   You're gonna miss me, honey   In the day they says to come"      Frankie done said to her Johnny   "Now man your hour done come"   "?Cause from behind her kimono   She drew her forty-four gun      "These love affairs are hard to bear"   Johnny, he fled down the stairway   "My love, Frankie, don't shoot"   Frankie done aimed the forty-four   While the town went rooty-toot-toot   As Johnny fell, then Frankie yelled      "Oh, I'm a-going away, I'm a-goin' to stay   Never coming home   You're gonna miss me ,honey   In the days to come      When the winter winds begin to blow   The ground is covered up   And when you think of the way   You're gonna wish me back, your lovin' man   You're gonna miss me, honey   In the day they says to come"      "Send for your rubber tired hearses   Send for your rubber tired hacks   Carry old Johnny to the graveyard   I've shot him in the back      With a great big gun as the preacher begun   Send for some policeman to take me right away   Lock me down in the dungeon cell   And throw the key away   My Johnny's dead because he said      "Oh, I'm a-going away, I'm a-goin' to stay   Never coming home   You're gonna miss me ,honey   In the days to come      When the winter winds begin to blow   The ground is covered up   And when you think of the way   You're gonna wish me back, your lovin' man   You're gonna miss me, honey   In the day they says to come"