XPost: alt.literature, rec.arts.books   
   From: don_tuite@MAILNOTSAUSAGEhotlinks.com   
      
   On 15 Aug 2006 12:28:59 -0700, "josversteeg@hotmail.com"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >> In the ballad "Frankie and Johnny," Johnny never cheats on Frankie   
   >> again after she confronts him.   
   >>   
   >   
   >That's a song? By whom?   
   >   
   Unknown, part of the folk tradition in North America, late 19th, early   
   20th century.   
      
   First line:  "Frankie and Johnny were lovers, oh lordy how they could   
   love."   
      
   Refrain:  "She shot her man, 'cause he was doing her wrong."   
      
   Don   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)