Bob Dylan – The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest (Ukulele)

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Well Frankie Lee and 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 a roll of tens

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And placed them on a footstool

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Just above the plotted plain

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Sayin' Take your pick Frankie Boy

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My loss will be your gain

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Well Frankie Lee he sat right down

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And put his fingers to his chin

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But with the cold eyes of Judas on him

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His head began to spin

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Could ya please not stare at me like that he said

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It's just my foolish pride

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For sometimes a man must be alone

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And this is no place to hide

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Well Judas he just winked and said

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All right I'll leave you here

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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

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I'm gonna start my pickin' right now

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Just tell me where you'll be

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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

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That's right said Judas Eternity

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Though you might call it 'Paradise '

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I don't call it anything

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Said Frankie Lee with a smile

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All right said Judas Priest

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I'll see you after a while

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Well Frankie Lee he sat back down

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Feelin' low and mean

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When just then a passing stranger

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Burst upon the scene

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Saying Are you Frankie Lee the gambler

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Whose father's deceased

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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

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Oh yes he is my friend

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Said Frankie Lee in fright

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I do recall him very well

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In fact he just left my sight

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Yes that's the one said the stranger

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As quiet as a mouse

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Well my message is he's down the road

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Stranded in a house

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Well Frankie Lee he panicked

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He dropped ev'rything and ran

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Until he came unto the spot

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Where Judas Priest did stand

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What kind of house is this he said

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Where I have come to roam

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It's not a house says Judas Priest

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It's not a house it's a home

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Well Frankie Lee he trembled

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He soon lost all control

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Over everything which he had made

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While the mission bells did toll

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He just stood there staring

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At that big house as bright as any sun

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With four and twenty windows

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And a woman's face in every one

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Well up the stairs ran Frankie Lee

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With a soulful bounding leap

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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

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But on the seventeenth he burst

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Into the arms of Judas Priest

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Which is where he died of thirst

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No one tried to say a thing

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When they carried him out in jest

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Except of course the little neighbour boy

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Who carried him to rest

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And he just walked along alone

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With his guilt all well concealed

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And muttered underneath his breath

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Nothing is revealed

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Well the moral of the story

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The moral of this song

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Is simply that one should never be

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Where one does not belong

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So when you see your neighbour carryin' somethin'

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Help him with his load

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And don't go mistaking Paradise

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For that home across the road