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Frenchie McCormick
Written and recorded by Red Steagall

C             G7              Am       C
The last time I saw her she's standin' alone
       F           G7           C    G7
In the door of her tumbled down shack
       C          G7         Am         C
On the edge of Tascosa she's waited for years
    F         G7              C   G7
But Micky her love can't come back

C         G7           Am           C
Micky had died back in nineteen and twelve
    F        G7             C  G7
But Frenchie had made him a vow
      C          G7      Am          C
She'd stay in Tascosa as long as she lived
       F             G7          C
It was tough but she made it somehow

F          G7          C           Am
Frenchie McCormick was true to her word
    F          G7     C
She never left Micky alone
    F              G7         C            Am
She stayed in that rotten old tumbled down shack
       D7                  Dm  G7
By the edge of the Tascosa road

        F              G7              C         Am
And the northern winds blew across the Panhandle Plains
    F                       E7
The winters were bitter and cold
    F            G7       C             Am
But she wouldn't move was determined to keep
  F             G7        C
A promise she'd made long ago

               G7        Am             C
She came to Tascosa from somewhere back east
  F            G7           C   G7
A charming and pretty young lass
    C         G7                   Am          C
She called herself Frenchie that's all that we know
      F         G7           C   G7
Cause she never spoke of her past

    C       G7         Am             C
And Micky a bar keep a handsome young lad
       F         G7           C   G7
Was as dashing a man as you'd find
   C         G7                Am           C
He hired the young beauty they soon fell in love
         F          G7           C
And were married in just a short time

Repeat #3,4

    C       G7         Am    C
She visited Micky most every day
      F             G7           C   G7
We'll come back without her this time
     C      G7            Am            C
In a solemn procession we trudge up the hill
    F          G7        C   G7
Six boys and a coffin of pine

    C            G7          Am              C
Yes she kept her promise she stayed till she died
    F          G7              C  G7
The stuff that romance is made of
     C          G7              Am          C
On a small wind blown hill over lookin' the town
    F           G7        C
She lies beside Micky her love

Repeat #3,4,3

F        G7            C           Am
Frenchie McCormick was true to her word
    F                E7
She never left Micky alone
F               G7       C        Am
She didn't move was determined to keep
  F              G7           C
A promise that's thirty years old

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