Intro
| C# | Fm | D#m | C# |
(guitar)
| C# | Fm/C | D#m/A# | C#/G# |
[Verse 1]
C# Fm/C
Well, Frankie Lee and Judas Priest,
D#m/A# C#/G#
They were the best of friends.
C# Fm/C
So when Frankie Lee needed money one day,
D#m/A# C#/G#
Judas quickly pulled out a roll of tens
C# Fm/C
And placed them on a footstool
D#m/A# C#/G#
Just above the plotted plain,
C# Fm/C
Sayin', "Take your pick, Frankie Boy,
D#m/A# C#/G#
My loss will be your gain."
[Verse 2]
C# Fm
Well, Frankie Lee, he sat right down
D#m/F# C#/G#
And put his fingers to his chin,
C# Fm
But with the cold eyes of Judas on him,
D#m | C#/G# C# |
His head began to spin.
C# Fm
"Could ya please not stare at me like that," he said,
D#m C#
"It's just my foolish pride,
C# Fm
For sometimes a man must be alone
D#m C#
And this is no place to hide."
[Verse 3]
C# Fm/C
Well Judas, he just winked and said,
D#m/A# C#/G#
"All right, I'll leave you here,
C# Fm/C
But you'd better hurry up and choose
D#m/A# C#/G#
Which of those bills you want before they all disappear."
C# Fm/C
"I'm gonna start my pickin' right now,
D#m/A# C#/G#
Just tell me where you'll be."
C# Fm/C
Judas pointed down the road
D#m/A# C#/G#
And said eternity,
[Verse 4]
C# Fm
"Eternity?" said Frankie Lee,
D#m C#
With a voice as cold as ice.
C# Fm
"That's right," said Judas, "Eternity,
D#m C#
Though you might call it 'Paradise.'"
C# Fm
"I don't call it anything,"
D#m C#/G#
Said Frankie Lee with a smile.
C# Fm
"All right," said Judas Priest,
D#m C#
"I'll see you after a while."
[Verse 5]
C# Fm
Well, Frankie Lee, he sat back down,
D#m C#
Feelin' low and mean,
C# Fm
When just then a passing stranger
D#m C#
Burst upon the scene,
C# Fm
Saying, "Are you Frankie Lee, the gambler,
D#m C#
Whose father's deceased?
C# Fm
Well, if you are, There's a fellow callin' you down the road
D#m C#
And they say his name is Priest."
[Verse 6]
C# Fm
"Oh, yes, he is my friend,"
D#m C#
Said Frankie Lee in fright,
C# Fm
"I do recall him very well,
D#m/ C#
In fact, he just left my sight."
C# Fm
"Yes, that's the one," said the stranger,
D#m C#
As quiet as a mouse,
C# Fm
"Well, my message is, he's down the road,
D#m C#
Stranded in a house."
[Verse 7]
C# Fm/C
Well, Frankie Lee, he panicked,
D#m/A# C#/G#
He dropped ev'rything and ran
C# Fm/C
Until he came unto the spot
D#m/A# C#/G#
Where Judas Priest did stand.
C# Fm/C
"What kind of house is this," he said,
D#m/A# C#/G#
"Where I have come to roam?"
C# Fm/C
"It's not a house," says Judas Priest,
D#m/A# C#/G#
"It's not a house, it's a home."
[Verse 8]
C# Fm
Well, Frankie Lee, he trembled,
D#m C#
He soon lost all control
C# Fm
Over everything which he had made
D#m C#
While the mission bells did toll.
C# Fm/C
He just stood there staring
D#m C#
At that big house as bright as any sun,
C# Fm
With four and twenty windows
D#m C#
And a woman's face in every one.
[Verse 9]
C# Fm
Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee
D#m/A# C#
With a soulful, bounding leap,
C# Fm
And, foaming at the mouth,
D#m C#
He began to make his midnight creep.
C# Fm
For sixteen nights and days he raved,
D#m C#
But on the seventeenth he burst
C# Fm
Into the arms of Judas Priest,
D#m C#
Which is where he died of thirst.
[Verse 10]
C# Fm
No one tried to say a thing
D#m C#
When they carried him out in jest
C# Fm
Except, of course, the little neighbour boy
D#m C#/G#
Who carried him to rest.
C# Fm
And he just walked along, alone,
D#m C#
With his guilt all well concealed,
C# Fm
And muttered underneath his breath,
D#m C#
"Nothing is revealed."
[Solo] (harp)
| C# | Fm/C | D#m/A# | C#/G# |
| C# | Fm/C | D#m/A# | C#/G# |
[Verse 11]
C# Fm
Well, the moral of the story,
D#m C#/G#
The moral of this song,
C# Fm
Is simply that one should never be
D#m C#
Where one does not belong.
C# Fm
So when you see your neighbour carryin' somethin',
D#m C#
Help him with his load,
C# Fm
And don't go mistaking Paradise
D#m C#
For that home across the road.
[Outro] (harp)
| C# | Fm | D#m | C# |
| C# | Fm | D#m | C# |
| C# | Fm/C | D#m/A# | C#/G# |
| C# | Fm | D#m | C# |
(fade out over last four chords)
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