"Bring on a hunnerd policemen an' throw me inna cell!
"I shot my Albert dead, an' now I'm goin' to Hell!
"I shot my man, 'cause he done me wrong!"
The Judge he said to the jury, "It's as plain as plain can be,
"This chippy done gone an' shot her pimp, an' that's murder in the first degree!
"She shot her man, 'cause he done her wrong."
"No, I did't shoot him in the first degree, an' I didn't shoot him in the last,
"I didn't shoot him in no degree at all, I shot him in the ass!
"I shot my man, 'cause he done me wrong!"
The Sheriff said to Frankie, "Frankie, honey it's all for the best."
He said her fancy-man Albert wasn't nothin' but a goddam pest.
She shot her man, 'cause he done her wrong.
Frankie stood on the scaffold, as calm as she could be.
She turned her eyes up toward the heavens, said, "Nearer my Gawd to thee!"
She shot her man, 'cause he done her wrong.