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