The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest chords by
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Key: Bb major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Well, Frankie
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Lee an  d 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
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a roll of tens

Verse 2

And placed them on a footstool

Just above the plotted plain

Sayin', "Take your pick, Frankie Boy

My loss will be your gain"

Verse 3

Well, Frankie Lee, he sat right down

And put his fingers to his chin

But with the cold eyes of Judas on him

His head began to spin

Verse 4
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"Would ya please not stare 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"
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Verse 5
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Well, Judas, he just winked and 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
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Before they all disappear"

Verse 6

"I'm gonna start my pickin' right now

Just tell me where you'll be"

Verse 7
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Judas pointed down 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
"That's right," said Judas Priest
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"Eternity,
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though you might call it Paradise"

Verse 8

"I don't call it any thing"

Said Frankie Lee with a smile

"All right," said Judas Priest

"I'll see you after a while"

Interlude 1

Verse 9

Well, Frankie Lee, he sat back down

Feelin' low and mean

When just then a passin' stranger

Burst upon the scene

Verse 10
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Saying, "Are you Frankie Lee,
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the gam bler
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Whose father is deceased? 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"

Verse 11

"Oh, yes, he is my friend"

Said Frankie Lee in fright

"I do recall him very well

In fact, he just left my sight"

Verse 12
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"Yes, that's the one,"
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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"

Verse 13

Well, Frankie Lee, he panicked

He dropped ev'rything and ran

Until he came up to the spot

Where Ju das Priest did stand

Verse 14
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"What kind of house is
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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"

Verse 15
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Well, Frankie Lee, he trembled
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He soon lost all control
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Over ev'rything which he had made
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While the mission bells did toll

Verse 16
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He just stood there starin'
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At that big house as bright
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as any sun
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With four and twenty win dows
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And a woman's face in ev'ry one
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Verse 17
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Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee
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With a soulful, boundin' leap
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And, foamin' at the mouth
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He began to make his
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midnight creep

Verse 18

For sixteen nights and days he raved

But on the seventeenth he burst

Into the arms of Judas Priest

Which is where he died of thirst

Verse 19

No one tried to say a thing

When they took him out in jest

Except, of course, the little neighbor boy

Who carried him to rest

Verse 20
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And he just walked along, alone
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With his guilt so well concealed
And muttered underneath
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his breath
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"Nothing is revealed"

Interlude 2

Verse 21

Well, the moral of the story

The moral of this song

Is simply that one should never be

Where one does not belong

Verse 22
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So when you see your neighbor
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carryin' somethin'
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Help him with his load
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And don't go mistakin' paradise
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For that home across the road

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