You're Gonna Miss Me

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"