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Craig Morgan - We'll Come Back Around
Craig Morgan - We'll Come Back Around


Craig Morgan - We'll Come Back Around Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Journey (Livin' Hits)
Released: 2013

We'll Come Back Around Lyrics


Put your fist through the wall
Say your through with it all
Baby I'm through too
Let's throw a log on the fire of the heat of the moment
Put your key in the car
Jerk it right outta park
Flip a big F-you
Spin your tires on the gravel and throw it

'Cause I know you love me
When you hate me
Baby I ain't gonna let it phase me
Right now we're just a
Circus leavin' town but We'll Come Back Around

This ain't the worst we've seen
Ain't the first bad dream
Ain't the third world war
Every once in a while we just gotta get out fight on
You say you won't come back
I say amen to that then I lock that door
But I know you got a key and I'm gonna leave a light on

You know I love you
When I hate you
You show up girl
You know I'm gonna take you
Baby even the moon and the sun got their ups and downs
We'll come back around

Na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na

When the winds and the rains are gone
We'll both be sorry even if it don't get said
No matter how over we are
We never get to far from right back in this bed

I know you love me
When you hate me
Baby I ain't gonna let it phase me
Right now we're a pair of hearts and the chips are down
But we'll come back around

You know I love you
When I hate you
You show up girl
You know I'm gonna take you
We're just a couple of kids on a merry go round
But we'll come back around

Na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na

Writer/s: BRANDY LYNN CLARK, JESSIE JO DILLON, SHANE MCANALLY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Downtown Music Publishing, NETTWERK ONE MUSIC (CANADA)LTD
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We'll Come Back Around
  • This song was written by Brandy Clark (Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart"), veteran songwriter Dean Dillon's daughter Jessie Dillon (George Strait's "The Breath You Take") and Trevor Rosen (Chris Young's "Neon"). Craig Morgan explained the song's meaning to The Boot : "It talks about a relationship, and for me it's very relatable, because it talks about how you argue and fight, but you'll come back around. And it's just a great, great melody, the lyric is really solid."
  • Morgan told USA Today that he considers this to be a real love song, as it shows a couple secure enough in their relationship to weather the storms. "That's what real love's about," he said. "It's not fun and games all the time. It can be difficult. You have to work at it. That's what this song is about, and, to me, it's kind of a sexy thing."

  • Gwen Stefani - Luxurious
    Gwen Stefani - Luxurious


    Gwen Stefani - Luxurious Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Love.Angel.Music.Baby
    Released: 2005

    Luxurious Lyrics


    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back
    Trying so hard, saving up the paper
    Now we get to lay back
    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back, the pay back, the pay back

    Champagne kisses, hold me in your lap of luxury
    I only want to fly first-class desires, you're my limousine
    So eloquent, the way we ride, our passion, it just multiplies
    There's platinum lightning in the sky
    Look I'm livin' like a queen

    This kind of love is getting expensive
    We know how to live, baby
    We're Luxurious, like Egyptian cotton
    We're so rich in love, we're rollin' in cashmere
    Got it in fifth gear, baby
    Diamond in the rough is lookin' so sparkly

    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back
    Trying so hard, saving up the paper
    Now we get to lay back
    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back, the pay back, the pay back

    Sugar, honey, sexy baby
    When we touch it turns to gold
    Sensitive and delicate, kinda like a tuberose
    You know you are my treasure chest
    It's pure perfection when we kiss and
    You're my Mr., I'm your Miss
    Gonna be until we're old

    This kind of love is getting expensive
    We know how to live, baby
    We're luxurious, like Egyptian cotton

    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back
    Trying so hard, saving up the paper
    Now we get to lay back
    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back, the pay back, the pay back

    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back
    Trying so hard, saving up the paper
    Now we get to lay back
    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back, the pay back, the pay back

    Cha-ching, cha-ching, we're loaded and we're gonna blow it
    Cha-ching, cha-ching, we're hooked up with the love cause we grow it
    Cha-ching, cha-ching, we got hydroponic love and we're smokin'
    Cha-ching, cha-ching, we burn it, you and I, we are so lit

    And we're so rich in love, we're rollin' in cashmere
    Got it in fifth gear, baby
    Diamond in the rough is lookin' so sparkly

    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back
    Trying so hard, saving up the paper
    Now we get to lay back
    Working so hard, every night and day
    And now we get the pay back, the pay back, the pay back

    Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER JASPER, CHRISTOPHER H JASPER, ERNIE ISLEY, GWEN STEFANI, MARVIN ISLEY, O'KELLY ISLEY, RONALD ISLEY, RUDOLPH ISLEY
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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    Luxurious
  • This song is about living the high-life but not being wasteful with money. Stefani wrote it with No Doubt bass player Tony Kanal.
  • This samples "Between The Sheets" by The Isley Brothers. Stefani is not the first artist to sample this song; it was used on Whitney Houston's "One Of These Days" and Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa."
  • Guest vocals on the single mix come from rapper Slim Thug.
  • The video, shot by Sophie Muller, marks her ninth video with Gwen Stefani. The singer told the director her idea for a clip about the life of a Latina "chola" girl. Stefani told MTV News: "Usually I have [a video concept] right when I write the song. I had this one vision of this girl that was from high school named Mercedes... she's very inspiring. She's this total like chola girl, white face, and she used to sit in class and put on tons of makeup. And I used to just watch her, mesmerized. And she would just wear this dark liner and this red lipstick and she had this safety pin and she'd be picking her eyelashes apart. She hadn't taken that mascara off for months."

  • Green Shoe Studio - Oh Sweet Lorraine
    Green Shoe Studio - Oh Sweet Lorraine


    Green Shoe Studio - Oh Sweet Lorraine Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Single Release Only
    Released: 2013

    Oh Sweet Lorraine Lyrics


    Oh Sweet Lorraine
  • This features the Peoria, Illinois-based Green Shoe Studio CEO/producer Colgan Jacob Colgan and Fred Stobaugh, who penned the song. 96-year-old Stobaugh wrote "Lorraine" for his wife of 72 years, who died in April 2013. "Well, after she passed away," he recalled in the song's official documentary video , "I was just sitting in the front room one evening by myself. It just [came] to me. I kept humming it. It just seemed like it fit her."
  • Stobaugh entered his tune in a songwriting contest that Green Shoe studio was running. Colgan remembered receiving his letter. "What made Fred's entry so special was instead of a video, it was a large manila envelope titled Green Shoe Studio Singer Songwriter contest. It's an online contest. People [were] supposed to upload their videos," he said. "But, we received a manila envelope. Lo and behold, it was a letter from a 96-year-old man who said, 'I've written a song for my [late] wife.'"

    Colgan added: "I started to read the lyrics and was so touched by the song and without even meeting Fred we thought, we're going to do something."
  • According to Colgan, Fred joked in his letter about his inability to sing. "On the actual envelope itself, it says ' P.S. I don't sing, I would scare people, haha,'" said the Green Shoe Studio CEO.
  • The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #42, making Stobaugh the oldest-most credited artist to appear on the chart. He overtook Tony Bennett, who was 85 years and two months old when "Body and Soul" with Amy Winehouse, spent a week on the survey in 2011.

  • The Fireballs - Sugar Shack
    The Fireballs - Sugar Shack


    The Fireballs - Sugar Shack Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Fireball Country
    Released: 1963

    Sugar Shack Lyrics


    There's a crazy little shack beyond the tracks
    And everybody calls it the Sugar Shack
    Well, its just a coffeehouse and its made out of wood
    Espresso coffee tastes mighty good
    That's not the reason why I've got to get back
    To that sugar shack, whoa baby
    To that sugar shack.

    There's this cute little girlie, she's a-working there
    A black leotard and her feet are bare
    I'm gonna drink a lot of coffee, spend a little cash
    Make that girl love me when I put on some trash
    You can understand why I've got to get back
    To that sugar shack, whoa baby
    To that sugar shack, yeah honey
    To that sugar shack, whoa yes
    To that sugar shack

    Now that sugar shack queen is a-married to me, yeah yeah
    We just sit around and dream of those old memories
    Ah, but one of these days I'm gonna lay down tracks
    In the direction of that sugar shack
    Just me and her yes were gonna go back
    To that sugar shack,
    Whoa uh oh
    O that sugar shack, yeah honey
    To our sugar shack

    Yea, yea, yea, our sugar shack

    Writer/s: F. VOSS, K. MC CORMACK
    Publisher: DUNDEE MUSIC
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    Sugar Shack
  • This song was recorded in Clovis, New Mexico at Norman Petty's studio in 1963. The original group was made up of Geo Tomsco, Chuck Tharp, Stan Lark, Danny Trammer and Eric Budd. Tharp was drafted and the band hired Jimmy Gilmer in his place. He, instead of Tharp, is on the cut.
  • The Fireballs recorded the song and took a break before doing another. It is said when they came back Norman had put a keyboard part on. They were upset, but when the song went to #1 they thought different.

  • Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady
    Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady


    Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: The Electric Lady
    Released: 2013

    Electric Lady Lyrics


    Electric Lady
  • This is the title track of the second studio album by the American recording artist Janelle Monáe. The record continues the utopian cyborg concepts of its predecessors and serves as the fourth and fifth installment of her seven-part Metropolis concept series.
  • The song (and album title) is a reference to an imaginary woman Monáe started painting when listening to her track "Mushrooms and Roses" whilst on tour. Each night she'd paint the same female silhouette until she'd produced over 100. Monáe brought up was the woman, during a visit to a shrink and the professional advised her to name her, and the Electric Lady was born.
  • Asked who the Electric Lady is, Monáe replied: "Someone who cares for the community, who has her own perspective on making love and what love is."
  • This song features Solange Knowles, who is the sister of Beyoncé. She is best known for her 2008 single, "I Decided," which was a Top 40 hit in several European countries.
  • The Electric Lady album cover is a drawing by New York artist Sam Spratt of Monáe plus her alter ego Cindi Merriweather alongside her four sisters. Spratt said in NME: "I took her and my own influences and made these disparate elements cohesive without being some sort of Frankenstein's monster."
  • The song's music video pays tribute to some of the Electric Ladies that came before. The clip starts off at at Monáe's home, where she says goodbye to her mom (yep, that's Janelle's real mother saying the opening monologue). She then heads off to a house party for the Electro Phi Betas alumnae, where we see TLC's T-Boz, Monica, Estelle, Esperanza Spalding and Kimbra singing along as framed photos on a wall of the college honorees.

    Janelle's dance partner is rapper T.I. They supply some impressive moves choreographed by Fatima Robinson.

  • Sting - I Hung My Head
    Sting - I Hung My Head


    Sting - I Hung My Head Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Mercury Falling
    Released: 1996

    I Hung My Head Lyrics


    Early one morning with time to kill
    I borrowed Jeb's rifle and sat on the hill
    I saw a lone rider crossing the plain
    I drew a bread on him to practice my aim
    My brother's rifle went off in my hand
    A shot rang out across the land
    The horse he kept running the rider was dead
    I Hung My Head, I hung my head
    I hung my head, I hung my head

    I set off running to wake from the dream
    My brother's rifle went into the stream
    I kept on running into the salt lands
    And that's where they found me, my head in my hands
    The sheriff he asked me "Why had I run"
    Then it came to me just what I had done
    And all for no reason, just one piece of lead
    I hung my head, I hung my head
    I hung my head, I hung my head

    Here in the courthouse, the whole town is there
    I see the judge high up in his chair
    "Explain to the courtroom what went through your mind
    And we'll ask the jury what verdict they find"
    I said "I felt the power of death over life
    I orphaned his children I widowed his wife
    I beg their forgiveness I wish I was dead"
    I hung my head, I hung my head
    I hung my head, I hung my head

    Early one morning with time to kill
    I see the gallows up on the hill
    And out in the distance a trick of the brain
    I see a lone rider crossing the plain
    He's come to fetch me to see what they done
    We'll ride together 'til Kingdom come
    I pray for God's mercy for soon I'll be dead
    I hung my head, I hung my head
    I hung my head, I hung my head

    Writer/s: GORDON SUMNER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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    I Hung My Head
  • In this song, a man grabs his brother's rifle to practice his aim. The gun accidentally goes off and kills a lone rider, and the shooter panics, runs off and throws the rifle into a stream. The song goes on to explain the verdict and how bad he felt and his plea for forgiveness. In the end, it is time for his own death, while the lone rider and him ride together to "kingdom come." It has much more of a Country/Bluegrass sound than most of Sting's songs.
  • Johnny Cash recorded this on his 2002 album American IV, The Man Comes Around. Careful listeners will notice Cash sings the lyric "My brother's rifle went into the stream" as "My brother's rifle went into the sheen," and the next line changes "salt lands" to "south lands." Sting assumes this came from a misprint but was nevertheless "so proud to hear my words and music interpreted by 'the master,'" he wrote in Lyrics By Sting.
  • "I wrote my version of the song in 9/8," Sting noted in Lyrics By Sting. "The guitar riff just occurred to me that way and reminded me of the gait of a galloping horse dragging a corpse. The story of a terrible accident, guilt, and redemption materialized out of the title and out of the haunting image of a riderless horse."
  • Johnny Cash's version was prominently featured in the sixth season premiere of The Shield and in the 2011 movie The Green Hornet.

  • John Legend - Save the Night
    John Legend - Save the Night


    John Legend - Save the Night Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Love in the Future
    Released: 2013

    Save the Night Lyrics


    A little trouble in the city
    Trouble in my home
    She told me love don't live here anymore
    I wanna run to the light
    It's too dark in this part of night
    I need somebody who can make it right

    And it's on tonight
    How about we go and Save the Night
    I can see you want it and so do I
    How about we go and save the night
    Let's save the night

    I'm not a one man band
    I want to sing a duet
    You and me would sound much better
    You look so good in my bed
    And if your gonna go out
    Your gonna go on with a bang
    Let's save the night I'll be your superman

    And it's on tonight
    How about we go and save the night
    I can see you want it and so do I
    How about we go and save the night
    Let's save the night

    I see the night flashing before her eyes
    Resuscitating bring it back to life

    And it's on tonight
    How about we go and save the night
    I can see you want it and so do I
    How about we go and save the night
    Let's save the night

    Oh, let's save the night
    Let's save the night

    Writer/s: DAVE TOZER, KANYE WEST, JON ANDERSON, ANDREW HARR, JOHN STEPHENS, JERMAINE JACKSON, KEVIN COSSOM, DAVID ANDERSON
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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    Save the Night
  • The Runners original demo for the song's chorus was in a completely different key. Co-producer Dave Tozer told SonicScoop how he went about altering it: "The first thing I did," he explained, "was change the key to put it in a better spot for John's range, then John and I rewrote the song, starting with the chorus melody, then we wrote the rest of the parts around it. We gave the verses more of a bluesy vibe and we added some 808s, a ton of claps, and really made those drums hit."

  • Slaughter - Real Love
    Slaughter - Real Love


    Slaughter - Real Love Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Wild Life
    Released: 1992

    Real Love Lyrics


    I lie awake in the morning light
    No one to hold
    Another sleepless night.
    'Cause its over now that you've left me
    Oh so lonely...

    Oh i hear it calling
    Oh i hear it calling

    Real Love; wont somebody show me?
    Real love; isnt anyone true anymore?
    Real love; wont somebody show me?
    Real love where are you?

    All through my life
    I've been feelin' down
    Searchin to find
    Im lost and not found
    There's gotta be someone
    Someone who understands me

    Oh i hear it calling
    Oh cant you hear it calling

    Real love wont somebody show me?
    Real love isnt anyone true anymore?
    Real love wont somebody show me?
    Real love where are you?

    Im in love
    Love, love, love
    Real love
    Where are you?

    Oh where are you?

    Writer/s: DANA STRUM, MARK ALLEN SLAUGHTER
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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    Real Love
  • This song featured a very popular (or in some eyes, a very unpopular) Shannen Doherty, who was featured in the hit TV show Beverly Hills, 90210. It's rumored that Shannen needed extra money to pay for expenses that got out of control. Another rumor is that the lead singer of Slaughter liked Doherty on the show so much so that he invited her to be in their video.

  • Lee Ann Womack - I May Hate Myself in the Morning
    Lee Ann Womack - I May Hate Myself in the Morning


    Lee Ann Womack - I May Hate Myself in the Morning Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: There's More Where That Came From
    Released: 2004

    I May Hate Myself in the Morning Lyrics


    Ain't it just like one of us
    To pick up the phone
    And call after a couple of
    Drinks,
    And say,
    "How you been?
    I been wonderin'
    That maybe you've been thinkin' 'bout me."
    And somewhere in the conversation,
    An old familiar invitation always arrives,
    An' I May Hate Myself in the Morning,
    But I'm gonna love you tonight.

    Everyone's known someone
    That they just can't help but want,
    And even though we just can't make it work out,
    Well the want-to lingers on.
    So once again we wind up in each other's arms,
    Pretending that it's right,
    An' I may hate myself in the morning,
    But I'm gonna love you tonight.

    I know it's wrong,
    But it ain't easy moving on.
    So why can't two friends remember the good times once again?

    Tomorrow when I wake up,
    I'll be feeling a little guilty, an' a little sad,
    Thinkin' how it used to be before everything went bad.
    An' I guess that's what it is,
    In lonely late night calls like this, that we try to find
    An' I may hate myself in the morning,
    But I'm gonna love you tonight.

    I may hate myself in the morning,
    But I'm gonna love you tonight.

    Writer/s: ODIE BLACKMON
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Spirit Music Group
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    I May Hate Myself in the Morning
  • This was released in October 2004 as the leadoff single from Lee Ann Womack's album There's More Where That Came From. The song was a Top 10 hit on both the US and Canadian Country charts and also peaked at #66 on the Hot 100.
  • The ballad finds the narrator about to have a night of passion with a man aware of the consequences of how she'll feel when she wakes up in the morning. Womack told The Mirror: "This is the kind of stuff I grew up listening to. How true is this song? Even if you haven't been in that situation, we all know somebody who has. It's just honest."
  • The song was written by Odie Blackmon. "I wrote that one by myself," he told Roughstock . "That was a true story. It was something I was going through at the time. I was actually living in a house that was a duplex next door to the girl I wrote the song about."

    "It has become a sticky situation," Blackmon added. "That song poured out in 30 minutes. One morning, I was just down about the whole deal, and I didn't have a co-write, but I had a guitar. It just kind of poured out. I sat there looking at it on the page while playing my cassette back, going man ... I think this is really, really good."
  • The song won the prize for Best Single at the 2005 Country Music Awards.

  • R.E.M. - Don't Go Back To Rockville
    R.E.M. - Don't Go Back To Rockville


    R.E.M. - Don't Go Back To Rockville Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Reckoning
    Released: 1984

    Don't Go Back To Rockville Lyrics


    Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus
    Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough
    Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know
    You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go
    Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself
    I know it might sound strange, but I believe
    You'll be coming back before too long

    [Chorus]
    Don't Go Back To Rockville,
    Don't go back to Rockville,
    Don't go back to Rockville
    And waste another year

    At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
    I don't care if you're not here with me
    'Cause it's so much easier to handle
    All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
    But something better happen soon
    Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back

    [Chorus]

    It's not as though I really need you
    If you were here I'd only bleed you
    But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and
    That's not how it ought to be
    I know it might sound strange, but I believe
    You'll be coming back before too long

    [Chorus: x2]

    Writer/s: BILL BERRY, PETER BUCK, MICHAEL MILLS, MICHAEL STIPE
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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    Don't Go Back To Rockville
  • This is about Ingrid Schorr, a girl the band knew at the University of Georgia whose hometown was Rockville, Maryland. She got a lot of attention on campus as classmates lamented her departure.
  • This is one of the few R.E.M. songs where bass player Mike Mills wrote most of the lyrics and sings the lead vocal.
  • The band had already been playing this song in a much faster, punk-like style for a long time and didn't even consider it for the Reckoning album until their legal advisor, Bertis Downs, begged them to "at least do one take of it for me ... please!?!?"

    Drummer Bill Berry remembers tweaking the song to mess with Downs: "To playfully suggest to him that the song wasn't in contention, we recorded a much slower version than he was accustomed to hearing and we sprinkled it with a Nashville twang to drive the point home. It started out silly, but when Mike added piano, the tune took on new light. Thanks, Bert!" (Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011)

  • Mark Knopfler - Don't Forget Your Hat
    Mark Knopfler - Don't Forget Your Hat


    Mark Knopfler - Don't Forget Your Hat Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Privateering
    Released: 2012

    Don't Forget Your Hat Lyrics


    Well, look out the window
    Never saw so much rain
    You better get down to the station
    If you want to catch that train
    So long, I guess that's that
    Hey, hey, Don't Forget Your Hat

    Well, you don't call the action
    You don't make the rules
    You don't pay the piper
    You don't even pay the fuel
    So long, I guess that's that
    Hey, hey, don't forget your hat

    Well, it's a big old world out there
    Go get it if you can
    You got a ways to go
    Before you get to be a man
    So long, I guess that's that
    Hey, hey, don't forget your hat

    Writer/s: MARK KNOPFLER
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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    Don't Forget Your Hat
  • This Blues boogie is one of several tracks on Privateering to feature the harmonica playing of Kim Wilson of the Blues rockers The Fabulous Thunderbirds. "One of the most important things about the blues to me has always been the harp," said Knopfler. "Seeing Muddy Waters as a kid made a big impression on me, the harp was burbling away all the time, the band was swinging. And to me the greatest modern exponent is Kim Wilson, he's been my top man for many years, so it was really great to have him on board. We hit it off straight away and got a great session going."

  • Traditional - Frankie And Johnny
    Traditional - Frankie And Johnny


    Traditional - Frankie And Johnny Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: various
    Released: 1904

    Frankie And Johnny Lyrics


    Frankie And Johnny
  • Originally titled "Frankie and Albert," this traditional murder ballad was inspired by the real-life crime of passion committed by Frankie Baker in 1899. Frankie discovered her lover, Albert Britt, had been with another woman and took revenge by shooting him at a boardinghouse in St. Louis, Missouri. She would be acquitted under plea of self-defense.

    The origins of the song as we know it today are a bit murky. That same year, local singer Bill Dooley composed a song sensationalizing the case, and it became a popular mainstay in local saloons before its official publication as "Frankie and Johnny" in 1904. The song was not credited to Dooley, however, but to ragtime composer/lyricist Hughie Cannon.

    Frank and Bert Leighton's 1908 version, which was published as "Frankie and Johnny" in 1912, brought us the familiar opening:

    Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
    They had a quarrel one day


    Countless covers over the years have provided many variations of the song. Sometimes the duo are "lovers" instead of "sweethearts." Johnny's mistress can be Alice Pry or Nelly Bly. Sometimes, Frankie is cheered by onlookers as she shoots Johnny and is exonerated; other times, she's executed.
  • Many artists have recorded this, including Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Sam Cooke sang a cleaner version than most, which is the most popular contemporary cover. Here are the charting versions in America:

    1959, #57 - Johnny Cash
    1961, #20 - Brook Benton
    1963, #14 - Sam Cooke
    1964, #75 - The Greenwood County Singers
    1966, #25 - Elvis Presley
  • Elvis Presley starred in a 1966 movie called Frankie And Johnny where he performed the song. In 1991, another movie of the same name was released starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, who in one scene banter over the song when they realize they are named Frankie and Johnny. The exchange:

    Pfeiffer: Didn't they kill each other?
    Pacino: No. She killed him. You got the edge there.
  • In 1942, the real Frankie Baker filed a defamation suit against Republic Pictures for the 1936 film Frankie and Johnnie, starring Helen Morgan and Chester Morris. Frankie lost the lawsuit and was never able to escape her reputation as a murderer, though she had been acquitted. She said during the (defamation) court proceedings: "I was pointed out as the worst woman in the world and introduced as the Frankie of song, instead of Miss Baker."
  • Brook Benton's R&B version was included in the 2011 compilation Mad Men: A Musical Companion.
  • Anika Noni Rose performed this in the 2011 miniseries Bag of Bones, based on the Stephen King novel. Rose played Sara Tidwell in the movie.

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