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