VERSE 1:
[*R1] I was walkin down the street, mindin' my own affair
[*R1] When two policemen, grabbed me unaware
[*R1] He says "Is your name Henry?" I says "Why sure"
[*R1] He says your the boy I've
[] been lookin for
CHORUS:
I was
[C#7] framed, well I was
[G#] Blamed, framed, framed, framed
Well, I
[D#7] never do nothin
[C#7]
But I always get
[G#7] blamed,
[D#7] framed
VERSE 2:
[*R1] They took him in the line up, and let those bright lights shine
[*R1] There was ten poor souls like me in that line
[*R1] I knew I was a victim of someone's evil plan
[*R1] When a stool pidgeon walked in and says, "There's your man"
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE + CHORUS]
VERSE 3:
[*R1] Well, the prosecuting attorney, started a prosecutin me
[*R1] Man, that cat didn't give me the one, but the third degree
[*R1] He says "Where were you on the night of July the 9th, 1953?"
[*R1] Man I was just home just a tweedle-a-dee
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