Frankie and Johnny Chords by Louis Armstrong

[Start]

[Intro]
D D7 Em G7 C7 Dm
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Am C Am C
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[Verse]
            G7          C           G7
Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts ■ 
C         G7        C    C7
Oh what a couple in love ■ 
F                          
Frankie was loyal to Johnny
                          C    
Just as true as the stars above
A7     D7      G7
He was her man ■ 
                C     C7
But he done her wrong ■ 
G7 C            G7          C        
■  Frankie went down to the drugstore
                             C7 
Some ice cream she wanted to buy
F                                 
The soda jerk told her that Johnny
                          C    
Was making love to Nellie Bligh
           D  
He was her man
G7                      C7    C
■  But he was doing her wrong ■
                                  G
Now Frankie's dad was a policeman ■
C                           C7 
She stole his old fortyfour gun
F                                     
Then back to the drugstore she beat it
                          C  
Just as fast as she could run
          D7 
After her man
G7                   C     F G7
■  Who was doing her wrong ■ ■ 
C                    G         C    
■ Now Frankie peaked in on the party
          G7                C7 
She got a surprise when she saw
F                                      
That Nellie and Johnny were making love
                           C    
And sipping soda through a straw
           D7  D
He was her man ■
G7                   C     C7 F
But he was doing her wrong ■  ■
C                 G7     C      
■ So Frankie flew into a tantrum
G7     C                G7  C7       
■  She whipped out that old fortyfour
F                                        
And her rootietootboom that gal did shoot


[Chorus]
                            C            
Right through that hardwood swinging door
         D7     
She shot her man
       G7                  C     C7 F C
'cause ■  he was doing her wrong ■  ■ ■


[Verse]
                 G7        C            G7
So bring on your crepe and your flowers ■ 
C             G7          C   
Bring on your rubbertired hack
C7        F                                       
■  'cause there's eight men to go to the graveyard
                          C   
But only seven are coming back
         D   D7 
She shot her man
Em                         C     C7
■  'cause he was doing her wrong ■ 
C               G7     C       
Now this is the end of my story
G7  C           G7        C7  
And this is the end of my song
F                               
Frankie is down in the jailhouse
                              C   
And she cries the whole night long
          D7  G7
He was my man ■ 
                    C7   
But he was doing me wrong


[Outro]
F C G C7
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