There are lots of versions of this traditional American folk song. These tabs are taken from the Jimmie Rodgers recording.

  4      -4     5     -6    6      5       4        4

Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts

 4    -4    5    -6      6         5        4

Oh Lordie how they could love

   -5       6   -6   -8    7     -6 -6  -5

Swore to be true to each other

   7      7    -6     7     -6    6

True as the stars above

 -6    6*   -6      6

He was her man

 -5     6   -5      6    5  -4       4

He wouldn’t do he-er wrong