Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest chords by
Bob Dylan
The Grateful Dead

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Well, Frankie Lee and

Judas Priest

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They were the best of friends

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So when Frankie Lee needed money one day

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Judas quickly pulled out a roll of ten

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And placed them on a footstool

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Just above the plotted plain,

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Sayin', Take your pick, Frankie Boy

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My loss will be your gain

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Verse 2

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Well, Frankie Lee, he sat right down

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And put his fingers to his chin

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But with the cold eyes of Judas on him

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His head began to spin

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Would ya please not stare

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at me like that, he said

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It's just my foolish pride

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But sometimes a man must be alone

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And this is no place to hide

Verse 3

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Well, Judas, he just winked an d said

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All right, I'll leave you here

But you'd better hurry up and choose

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Which of those bills you want

Before they all disappear

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I'm gonna start my

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pickin' right now

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Just tell me where you'll be

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Judas pointed down

Verse 4

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the road

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And said, eternity

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Eternity, said Frankie Lee

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With a voice as cold as ice

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That's right, said Judas Priest,

eternity

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Though you might call it 'Paradise

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Verse 5

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I don't call it anything

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Said Frankie Lee with a smile

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All right," said Judas Priest

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I'll see you after a while

Interlude 1

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Well, Frankie Lee, he sat

Verse 6

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back down

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Feelin' low and mean

When just then a passing

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stranger

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Burst upon the scene

Saying, are you Frankie Lee,

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the gambler

Whose father is deceased

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Well, if you are

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There's a fellow callin' you down the road

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And they say his name is Priest

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Verse 7

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Oh, yes, he is my friend

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Said Frankie Lee in fright

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I do recall him very well

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In fact, he just left my sight

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Yes, that's the one,said the stranger

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As quiet as a mouse

Well, my message is,

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he's down the road

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Stranded in a house

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Well, Frankie Lee, he panicked

Verse 8

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He dropped

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everything and ran

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Until he came up to the spot

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Where Judas Priest did stand

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What kind of house is this,he said

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Where I have come to roam

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It's not a house,said Judas Priest

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It's not a house it's

a home

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Verse 9

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Well, Frankie Lee, he trembled

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He soon lost all control

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Over everything which he had made

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While the mission bells did toll

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He just stood there staring

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At that big house as bright as any sun

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With four and twenty windows

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And a woman's face in every one

Verse 10

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Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee

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With a soulful, bounding leap

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And, foaming at the mouth

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He began to make his midnight creep

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For sixteen nights and days he raved

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But on the seventeenth he burst

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Into the arms of Judas Priest

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Which is where he died of thirst

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Verse 11

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No one tried to say a thing

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When they took him out in jest

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Except, of course, the little neighbor boy

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Who carried him to rest

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And he just walked along, alone

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With his guilt so well concealed

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And muttered underneath his breath

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Nothing is revealed

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Interlude 2

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Well, the moral of the story

Verse 12

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The moral of this song,

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Is simply that one should never be

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Where one does not belong.

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So when you see your neigh

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bor carryin' somethin'

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Help him with his load

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And don't go mistaking Paradise

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For that home across the road

Outro 1

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The original key of Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest by Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead is G major.

The primary chords used in Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest are G, C, Em, F, B.

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