GBm
Well, Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
AmG
They were the best of friends
GBm
So when Frankie Lee needed money one day
AmG
Judas quickly pulled out a roll of tens
GBm
And placed them on a footstool
AmG
Just above the plotted plain
GBm
Sayin', "Take your pick, Frankie Boy
AmG
My loss will be your gain"
[Verse 2]
GBm
Well, Frankie Lee, he sat right down
AmG
And put his fingers to his chin
GBm
But with the cold eyes of Judas on him
AmG
His head began to spin
GBm
"Could ya please not stare at me like that," he said
AmG
"It's just my foolish pride
GBm
But sometimes a man must be alone
AmG
And this is no place to hide"
[Verse 3]
GBm
Well, Judas, he just winked and said
AmG
"All right, I'll leave you here
GBm
But you'd better hurry up and choose
Am
which of those bills you want
G
Before they all disappear"
GBm
"I'm gonna start my pickin' right now
AmG
Just tell me where you'll be"
GBm
Judas pointed down the road
AmG
And said, "Eternity!"
[Verse 4]
GBm
"Eternity?" said Frankie Lee
AmG
With a voice as cold as ice
GBm
"That's right," said Judas, "Eternity
AmG
Though you might call it ‘Paradise'"
GBm
"I don't call it anything"
AmG
Said Frankie Lee with a smile
GBm
"All right," said Judas Priest
AmG
"I'll see you after a while"
[Verse 5]
GBm
Well, Frankie Lee, he sat back down
AmG
Feelin' low and mean
GBm
When just then a passin' stranger
AmG
Burst upon the scene
GBm
Saying, "Are you Frankie Lee, the gambler
AmG
Whose father's deceased?
GBm
Well, if you are, there's a fellow callin' you down the road
AmG
And they say his name is Priest"
[Verse 6]
GBm
"Oh, yes, he is my friend"
AmG
Said Frankie Lee in fright
GBm
"I do recall him very well
AmG
In fact, he just left my sight"
GBm
"Yes, that's the one," said the stranger
AmG
As quiet as a mouse
GBm
"Well, my message is, he's down the road
AmG
Stranded in a house"
[Verse 7]
GBm
Well, Frankie Lee, he panicked
AmG
He dropped ev'rything and ran
GBm
Until he came up to the spot
AmG
Where Judas Priest did stand
GBm
"What kind of house is this," he said
AmG
"Where I have come to roam?"
GBm
"It's not a house," says Judas Priest
AmG
"It's not a house, it's a home"
[Verse 8]
GBm
Well, Frankie Lee, he trembled
AmG
He soon lost all control
GBm
Over ev'rything which he had made
AmG
While the mission bells did toll
GBm
He just stood there staring
AmG
At that big house as bright as any sun
GBm
With four and twenty windows
AmG
And a woman's face in ev'ry one
[Verse 9]
GBm
Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee
AmG
With a soulful, bounding leap
GBm
And, foaming at the mouth
AmG
He began to make his midnight creep
GBm
For sixteen nights and days he raved
AmG
But on the seventeenth he burst
GBm
Into the arms of Judas Priest
AmG
Which is where he died of thirst
[Verse 10]
GBm
No one tried to say a thing
AmG
When they carried him out in jest
GBm
Except, of course, the little neighbor boy
AmG
Who carried him to rest
GBm
And he just walked along, alone
AmG
With his guilt so well concealed
GBm
And muttered underneath his breath
AmG
"Nothing is revealed"
[Harmonica Solo]
G Bm Am G x2
[Verse 11]
GBm
Well, the moral of this story
AmG
The moral of this song
GBm
Is simply that one should never be
AmG
Where one does not belong
GBm
So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin'
AmG
Help him with his load
GBm
And don't go mistaking Paradise
AmG
For that home across the road