- Frankie: [he sings] There were stars in the sky, there were tears in her eye, the night that she cried in my beer. She gazed with a sigh out of her one good eye, the night that she cried in my beer. She felt, so she said, like an outcast; she hadn't been home for a year. So to save her from shame, I gave her my name, on the night that she cried in my beer.