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The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest easy guitar chords by 
Thea Gilmore
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Intro 1
G
Bm
C
G
Bm
C
G
Verse 1
G
Well, Frankie
Bm
Lee an d Judas Priest
C
G
They were the best of friends
Bm
So when Frankie Lee needed
money one day
C
Judas quickly pulled out
G
a roll of tens
Verse 2
G
Bm
And placed them on a footstool
C
G
Just above the plotted plain
Bm
Sayin', "Take your pick, Frankie Boy
C
G
My loss will be your gain"
Verse 3
G
Bm
Well, Frankie Lee, he sat right down
C
G
And put his fingers to his chin
Bm
But with the cold eyes of Judas on him
C
G
His head began to spin
Verse 4
G
Bm
"Would ya please not stare at
me like that," he said
C
G
"It's just my foolish pride
Bm
But sometimes a man must be alone
C
And this is no place to hide"
G
Verse 5
Bm
Well, Judas, he just winked and said
C
G
"All right, I'll leave you here
But you'd better hurry up and choose
Bm
Which of those bills you want
C
G
Before they all disappear"
Verse 6
G
Bm
"I'm gonna start my pickin' right now
C
G
Just tell me where you'll be"
Verse 7
G
Bm
Judas pointed down the road
C
And said, "Eternity"
G
Bm
"Eternity?" said Frankie Lee
C
G
With a voice as cold as ice
"That's right," said Judas Priest
Bm
"Eternity,
C
G
though you might call it Paradise"
Verse 8
G
Bm
"I don't call it any thing"
C
G
Said Frankie Lee with a smile
Bm
"All right," said Judas Priest
C
G
"I'll see you after a while"
Interlude 1
Bm
C
G
Bm
C
G
Verse 9
G
Bm
Well, Frankie Lee, he sat back down
C
G
Feelin' low and mean
Bm
When just then a passin' stranger
C
G
Burst upon the scene
Verse 10
G
Saying, "Are you Frankie Lee,
Bm
the gam bler
C
G
Whose father is deceased? Well,
if you are
Bm
There's a fellow callin'
you down the road
C
G
And they say his name is Priest"
Verse 11
G
Bm
"Oh, yes, he is my friend"
C
G
Said Frankie Lee in fright
Bm
"I do recall him very well
C
G
In fact, he just left my sight"
Verse 12
G
"Yes, that's the one,"
Bm
said the stranger
C
G
As quiet as a mouse
"Well, my message is,
Bm
he's down the road
C
G
Stranded in a house"
Verse 13
C
G
Well, Frankie Lee, he panicked
D
G
He dropped ev'rything and ran
C
G
Until he came up to the spot
D
G
Where Ju das Priest did stand
Verse 14
C
"What kind of house is
G
this," he said
D
G
"Where I have come to roam?"
C
G
"It's not a house" said Judas Priest
D
"It's not a house, it's a home"
Verse 15
D
G
Bm
Well, Frankie Lee, he trembled
C
G
He soon lost all control
Bm
Over ev'rything which he had made
C
While the mission bells did toll
Verse 16
G
He just stood there starin'
Bm
C
At that big house as bright
G
as any sun
Bm
With four and twenty win dows
C
And a woman's face in ev'ry one
G
Verse 17
Bm
Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee
C
G
With a soulful, boundin' leap
Bm
And, foamin' at the mouth
C
He began to make his
G
midnight creep
Verse 18
G
Bm
For sixteen nights and days he raved
C
G
But on the seventeenth he burst
Bm
Into the arms of Judas Priest
C
G
Which is where he died of thirst
Verse 19
G
Bm
No one tried to say a thing
C
G
When they took him out in jest
Bm
Except, of course, the little neighbor boy
D
C
G
Who carried him to rest
Verse 20
G
Bm
And he just walked along, alone
C
G
With his guilt so well concealed
And muttered underneath
Bm
his breath
C
G
"Nothing is revealed"
Interlude 2
Bm
C
G
Bm
C
G
Verse 21
G
Bm
Well, the moral of the story
C
G
The moral of this song
Bm
Is simply that one should never be
C
G
Where one does not belong
Verse 22
G
So when you see your neighbor
Bm
carryin' somethin'
C
G
Bm
C
G
Help him with his load
Bm
And don't go mistakin' paradise
C
G
For that home across the road
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