文本歌词

Leaving Home - Charlie Poole/Bertha Lee
Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts;
They had a quarrel one day
Johnny vowed he'd leave her;
He said he was going away
Never coming home going away to roam
Frankie she begged and she pleaded
'My love Johnny please stay
Now oh my honey I've done you wrong
But please don't go away '
Then Johnny sighed and Frankie cried
Oh I'm going away I'm going to stay
And never coming home
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 me
Gonna wish me back your loving man
You're gonna miss me honey in the day
Days days to come
Frankie done said to her Johnny
'Say man your hour has come'
Underneath her silk kimono she drew a forty-four gun
These love affairs are hard to bear
Johnny he fled down the stairway
'My love Frankie don't shoot '
Frankie just aimed with the forty-four
Five times with a rooty-toot-toot
As Johnny fell then Frankie yelled
Oh I'm going away I'm going to stay
And never coming home
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 me
Gonna wish me back your loving man
You're gonna miss me honey in the day
Days days to come
Send for your rubber-tired hearses
Send for your rubber-tired hacks
Carry little Johnny to the graveyard
I've shot him in the back
With a great big gun as he went to run
Send for a thousand policemen
Take me right away
Lock me down in the dungeon
Cell and throw the key away
For Johnny's dead just 'cause he said
Oh I'm going away I'm going to stay
And never coming home
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 me gonna
Wish me back your loving man
You're gonna miss me honey
In the day days days to come