FRANKIE AND JOHNNY


Meaning of FRANKIE AND JOHNNY in English

an old US ballad about a woman who murders her lover and is hanged for the crime. In the story, Frankie sees Johnny with Alice Pry in a Memphis hotel and shoots him three times. Most verses end with the line ‘He was her man but he done her wrong’.

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.