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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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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Verse 2
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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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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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pickin' right now
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Just tell me where you'll be
Verse 4
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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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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
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
When just then a passing
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stranger
Saying, are you Frankie Lee,
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the gambler
Whose father is deceased
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There's a fellow callin' you down the road
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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
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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
Verse 8
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He dropped
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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
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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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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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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Interlude 2
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Verse 12
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Is simply that one should never be
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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
Outro 1
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