Kunci: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well, Frankie
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They were the best of friends
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So when Frankie Lee needed
money one day
Verse 2
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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"
Verse 3
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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
Verse 4
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"Would ya please not stare at
me like that," he said
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"It's just my foolish pride
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But sometimes a man must be alone
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And this is no place to hide"
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Verse 5
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Well, Judas, he just winked and said
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"All right, I'll leave you here
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"
Verse 6
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"I'm gonna start my pickin' right now
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Just tell me where you'll be"
Verse 7
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Judas pointed down the road
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"Eternity?" said Frankie Lee
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With a voice as cold as ice
"That's right," said Judas Priest
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though you might call it Paradise"
Verse 8
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"I don't call it any thing"
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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"
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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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 passin' stranger
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Burst upon the scene
Verse 10
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Saying, "Are you Frankie Lee,
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Whose father is deceased? 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"
Verse 11
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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"
Verse 12
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As quiet as a mouse
"Well, my message is,
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Stranded in a house"
Verse 13
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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 up to the spot
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Where Ju das Priest did stand
Verse 14
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"Where I have come to roam?"
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"It's not a house" said Judas Priest
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"It's not a house, it's a home"
Verse 15
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Well, Frankie Lee, he trembled
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He soon lost all control
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Over ev'rything which he had made
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While the mission bells did toll
Verse 16
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He just stood there starin'
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At that big house as bright
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With four and twenty win dows
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And a woman's face in ev'ry one
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Verse 17
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Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee
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With a soulful, boundin' leap
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And, foamin' at the mouth
Verse 18
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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
Verse 19
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No one tried to say a thing
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When they took him out in jest
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Except, of course, the little neighbor boy
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Who carried him to rest
Verse 20
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And he just walked along, alone
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With his guilt so well concealed
And muttered underneath
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"Nothing is revealed"
Interlude 2
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Verse 21
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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
Verse 22
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So when you see your neighbor
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Help him with his load
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And don't go mistakin' paradise
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For that home across the road
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