Posted on 09/30/2014 9:48:25 AM PDT by Old Yeller
Wherever it came from it sounded like poetic justice to me...lol
Right.
He should have shot the murderous bitch right between the eyeballs.
And the gun went rootie-toot...
He was her man,
But he done her wrong.
You forgot the rest of the song:
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Bring out a thousand policemen, bring 'em around today
To lock me down in the dungeon cell, and throw that key away
I shot my man, he was doing me wrong
Frankie she said to the warden what are they going to do
The warden he said to Frankie, it's electric chair for you
Cause you shot your man, he was doing you wrong
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They fried her ... and rightly so.
Was nuts indeed.
yes
Seems reasonable.
You left out the last lines:
This story has no moral.
This story has no end.
This story only goes to show
That there ain't no good in men.
He was her man, but he was doin' her wrong.
I never agreed with the last verse. Of the four characters (Frankie, Johnny, Nellie Blye, and The Warden) only the Warden didn't cheat or murder anybody. And he's a man. So what the heck?
I have observed since then, that "cheating" always involves two cheaters, one of whom is usually a woman. I have also observed that women sometimes cheat with other women ...
Some women who cheat get wacked, too.
And nobody pretends its funny ... and the men end up in prison (or at the end of a rope) where they belong.
He was nuts not to run when the girl malfunctioned too!
True.
Well let me put it this way, Willie Nelson is not very appealing to women like me, so sewing him up to get a good nights sleep I could believe. Letting him live, well it would be easy to just wait until ‘On the road again, just can’t wait to get back on the road again...” comes back around...lol
Good point. However, the lyrics are what they are.
I have several Kingston Trio LPs, but I don't seem to have that one. I got the lyrics from a book of American folk songs.
The groin? Bad shot.
The Sedgwick County District Attorneys Office will determine what, if any, charges, will be filed in the case.
Oh, so it's okay then. I guess he would have just been s.o.l. if she hit him in the femoral artery and he bled out.
I heard of an incident where a man was shot in the fracas.
Is the fracas anywhere near the groin?
Can’t swear it was the Kingston Trio ... he had (still has, as far as I know) LPs from several bands of that general nature. Could have been any of them ... it was more than 30 years ago.
Next time I visit, I’ll have to check.
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