Framed

I was walkin' down the street

Mindin' my own affair

When two police grabbed me

Unaware

They says 'Your name Henry '

I says 'Why sho'

He says 'You the boy I been lookin' for'

I was framed

Framed I was blamed

Fra-a-amed

Well I never knew nothin'

But I always get framed

Oh framed

They took him in the line up

And let those bright lights shine

There was ten poor souls

Like me in that line

I knew I was a victim

Of someone's evil plan

When a stool-pigeon walked in

And says;

'That's your man '

I was framed

Framed I was blamed

Oh framed framed framed

Well I never knew nothin'

But I always get framed

Well the prosecuting attorney

Stared-a prosecutin' me

Man that cat didn't give me the one

But the third degree

He says 'Where were you

On the night July 19 1953 '

'Man I was just home just-a

Tweedle-e-dee'

I was framed

Oh framed I was blamed

Oh framed framed framed

Well I never knew nothin'

But I always get framed

Oh framed

Oh framed