Frankie and johnny were lovers

What song will you find on Lyrics Playground today? Many believe that, in various forms, it dates back to the mid's. Others that it more likely originated in the early 's. The most believable is that it is based on an actual event that took place on October 15, , in St. Louis, Missouri. On that date, year-old Frankie Baker shot year-old Allen Britt, following a row over another woman, Alice Pryor. The song went through several changes before the popular version from was arrived at.

It tells the story of a woman, Frankie, who finds that her man Johnny was "making love to" another woman and shoots him dead. Frankie is then arrested; in some versions of the song she is also executed. One of these took place in an apartment building located at Targee Street in St. Louis, Missouri, at on the morning of October 15, Frankie Baker — ,[1] a year-old woman, shot her year-old lover Allen also known as "Albert" Britt in the abdomen. Britt had just returned from a cakewalk at a local dance hall, where he and another woman, Nelly Bly also known as "Alice Pryor" , had won a prize in a slow-dancing contest. Britt died of his wounds four days later at the City Hospital.

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